Turkish Space Programs

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[TheCommander]

Rasat Satellite captured some images from Turkiye and other countries.

Rasat'tan yeni görüntüler Foto Galeri Haberi resimleri Samanyolu Haber

P.s: Rasat is capable of taking 7.5x7.5 meter grid cell resolutions in black and white, 15x15 meter grid cell resolutions in color anywhere in the world.

 

[Worf]

Very interesting project. I'm wonder that how they are going overcome the FACT that a huge amount of the energy harvested will be lost. I don't believe this will be efficient....

'Türkiye 2018'de yerli yapım uydu üreterek yörüngeye gönderecek.
2035 yılına kadar uzaya güneş enerjisinden elektrik üreten güneş panelleri yerleştirilecek.
Yıldırım, "Uzaya, güneş enerjisinden elektrik üreten güneş panelleri yerleştirip, buradan üretilecek enerjiyi radyo frekans dalgalarıyla yeryüzüne ulaştıracak bir projeyi gerçekleştirmeyi hedefliyoruz." dedi.'Türkiye'den dev proje - Milliyet

'Turkey will send a indigenous satellite on 2018. Its aim is to harvest the suns energy for radio waves; these waves then will be sent back to earth where the wave energy will be converted to electrical energy. The project will finish around 2035.'

 

[-SINAN-]

RFP for "Development and Production of Indigenous Communication Sattelite" has been published by Tubitak.

Türkiye,

1007 Ça

 

[Seyfullah]

Turkey striving to synchronize aerospace ambitions by 2023

Turkish aerospace officials are working day and night to synchronize efforts to build an air-defense system, long-range missiles and a satellite launcher

A Turkish earth-observation satellite named Göktürk-2 was launched from Jiuquan, China, in December 2012. The satellite was designed and built by TÜBİTAK’s space technologies research unit. DHA photo
A Turkish earth-observation satellite named Göktürk-2 was launched from Jiuquan, China, in December 2012. The satellite was designed and built by TÜBİTAK’s space technologies research unit. DHA photo
Officials at Turkey’s emerging “space command structure,” now a branch of the country’s Air Force, is striving to achieve an ambitious, long-term objective that it believes will make Turkey a “space power” by 2023, the centenary of the Turkish Republic.

“When combined successfully, these three ventures will make Turkey a space power,” said one senior military officer familiar with space and related programs. “We are aware that this is an ambitious goal, but certainly not unattainable, given our fast-growing experience and technological infrastructure.”

Turkish officials and aerospace experts are working overtime to achieve that broadly defined goal, aiming, eventually, to synchronize work in three fields: building a national long-range air defense and anti-missile architecture, developing long-range missiles and constructing the country’s first satellite launching pad.

Turkey is expected to decide later this year on how to proceed with its plans to build a “national” long-range air defense and anti-missile system, a program dubbed T-LORAMIDS.

T-LORAMIDS consists of radar, launcher and intercept missiles. It has been designed to counter both enemy aircraft and missiles. Turkey has no long-range air defense systems. The bidders are a U.S. partnership of Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, offering the Patriot air defense system; Russia’s Rosoboronexport, marketing the S-300; the China Precision Machinery Export-Import Corp., offering its HQ-9; and the Italian-French consortium Eurosam, maker of the SAMP/T Aster 30.

But defense procurement officials have indicated that Turkey is strongly leaning toward adopting a Chinese long-range anti-missile and air defense system even though it may be impossible to integrate the system with its existing NATO architecture.

They say the Chinese proposal was technologically satisfactory, allowed technology transfer and was much cheaper than rival proposals. The decision to select the Chinese contender is awaiting final approval from Defense Minister İsmet Yilmaz and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Meanwhile, Turkey is also working on another missile/space-related program that may equally annoy its NATO partners.

In 2011, Turkey announced plans to develop a missile with a maximum range of 2,500 kilometers, not revealing whether it would be ballistic or cruise. Although little information about the program has been released, a Turkish Cabinet minister in January confirmed that Turkey possessed capabilities to produce a missile with a range of 800 kilometers.

TÜBİTAK-Sage, an affiliate of the state scientific institute TÜBİTAK, has been awarded the development contract and has indicated that it intends to test a prototype within the next two years. However, independent analysts say this development plan appears to be overly ambitious.

The military official did not comment on the program.

The country made a breakthrough on the third priority leg of the planned space architecture in July when Turkey approved the construction of its first satellite launching center to cater for the country’s mushrooming satellite programs.

Turkey’s defense procurement agency, the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM), signed a contract with the country’s national missile manufacturer, Roketsan, to build the Turkish Satellite Launching System (UFS) for pre-conceptual design work. Under the contract, Roketsan will design the UFS to be capable of launching, initially, satellites into low-earth orbit (500 to 700 kilometers) through a launching center the company will build and the Turkish Air Force will operate.

But some of Turkey’s NATO allies fear that Ankara could in the future use its satellite launcher also as a launching pad for its intended 2,500-kilometer-range missiles, according to Western diplomats. At the moment, the Turkish military’s space-based assets are geared more toward ISR missions, but Turkey has so far been dependent on other nations to launch its satellites.

Observation satellite passes tests

A Turkish earth-observation satellite named Göktürk-2 was launched from Jiuquan, China, in December 2012. The satellite was designed and built by TÜBİTAK’s space technologies research unit, TÜBİTAK-UZAY, in cooperation with Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI). Göktürk-2 is Turkey’s second national satellite following RASAT, which also was developed by TÜBİTAK-UZAY and launched from Russia on Aug. 17, 2011.

In an August report, TÜBİTAK said the Göktürk-2 successfully passed the Defense Ministry’s acceptance tests on June 28. The report said an orbit test concluding report was not being prepared.

In early 2013, Turkey’s Defense Industry Executive Committee approved contract negotiations with TAI for the domestic development of a synthetic aperture radar spacecraft dubbed Göktürk-3. TÜBİTAK’s August report said TÜBİTAK’s proposals for Göktürk-3’s subsystems were now being assessed by TAI.
Turkey also plans to launch the Göktürk-1 in the next few years. Göktürk-1, under construction under a deal with Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space, is a larger and more powerful optical imaging spacecraft capable of sub-meter resolution that is similar to the French Pleiades earth observation satellites built by EADS-Astrium.

According to a government road map for military and civilian satellites, Turkey plans to send into orbit a total of 16 satellites until 2020. A space industry expert based in Turkey said the next five years’ satellite contracts could amount to $2 billion.
September/24/2013

 

[Safriz]

BURAK BEKD


How true or false is this report?

It says Turkey already has a 1500km ballistic missile?

@cabalit_53

 

[cabatli_53]

BURAK BEKD


How true or false is this report?

It says Turkey already has a 1500km ballistic missile?

@cabalit_53

Nobody knows about it. It was Tubitak Manager told them seriously While PM and others are on conference room but As I said No details are given regarding it. There are somthing proceeding out of our knowledge...

 

[mehmet75]

I understand +1000 km missiles are not in invantory, but tested by TUBITAK and ROKETSAN..

 

[Babur Han]

Turkey To Begin Launch System, Gokturk-3 Negotiations
Posted by Amy Svitak 12:31 PM on Jan 22, 2013

Ankara is planning development of a national satellite launch system capable of delivering military and civil spacecraft to orbit, according to Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz.

Following a Jan. 3 meeting of Turkey’s Defense Industry Executive Committee, Yilmaz said the government will enter negotiations with Turkish weapons builder Roketsan Inc. for the early concept design phase of a new launch system “to ensure that military and civilian satellites can be sent into space,” Yilmaz said in a Jan. 3 statement.

During the meeting, attended by Yilmas and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the committee also approved the beginning of contract negotiations with Turkish Aerospace Industries for domestic development of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) spacecraft dubbed Gokturk-3, with support from defense electronics manufacturer Aselsan and state research institute Tubitak.

Turkey To Begin Launch System, Gokturk-3 Negotiations

 

[Echo_419]

Bolded parts says.

- Project will take on 1 year.
- System will carry 1500kg payload to 700 km altitude as orbit.

All the best for your Satelite Launch Vehicle pogram

 

[telkon]

there were rumors that erdoğan and minister of defence agreed on placing some bureucrat from istanbul municipality in place of SSM director Murad Bayar. are there any news on that?

 

[Babur Han]

Turkey keen on space cooperation with China
Turkish scientists said they wanted to cooperate with China in different areas.


Turkey is keen on space cooperation with China, especially in lunar missions and outer space exploration, scientists said here on Wednesday after China's launching of lunar probe Chang'e-3.

The scientists watched the launching of Long March-3B rocket, which carried Chang'e-3 lunar probe and Yutu lunar rover, on Monday.

"Turkey closely watches China's lunar exploration programs," Onur Haliloglu, Technical Deputy Director of Space Technologies Research Institute of Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), said in a interview with Xinhua.

Now Turkey with great enthusiasm waits for the latest information from Chang'e-3, Haliloglu remarked.

The scientist said the areas that Turkey and China should expand cooperation are satellite projects, lunar mission projects and exploration of the outer space.

Meanwhile, Director of Center for Science and Technology Research and Assistant Professor Celal Sami Tufekci in Yildiz Technical University Department of Mechatronics Engineering told Xinhua that Turkey could develop its partnership with China in designing astronaut programs.

"Turkey needs an astronaut program and in the near future I think that the two countries could expand their cooperation in sending astronauts to the space," Tufekci added.

China has been investing a lot in space missions, Tufekci said. "It has been conducting very impressive programs and the Chang'e-3 is one of them."

Tufekci also mentioned, China Space Station is expected to be operational in 2022, which would provide a good opportunity for Turkish scientists to cooperate with their Chinese counterparts.

"Turkey is at the beginner level in developing space programs and is ready to cooperate with China," he remarked.

Speaking of space bilateral cooperation, Haliloglu said, Turkey and China are two senior members of Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO) and TUBITAK is an authorized institution of the organization in Turkey.

"TUBITAK has long been working with China in developing space projects and has enjoyed continuous support from Beijing for its ongoing programs. APSCO is an important agency in facilitating our cooperation," Haliloglu said.

One of the important projects that TUBITAK has been working with China is the earthquake prediction.

"TUBITAK gets support from China in studying the ionic activities in the ionosphere to predict earthquakes," Haliloglu said.

In addition, TUBITAK and China also cooperate in developing regional GPS satellites, he noted.

Turkey keen on space cooperation with China | Science & Technology | World Bulletin

 

[Cohen1984]

Bolded parts says.

- Project will take on 1 year.
- System will carry 1500kg payload to 700 km altitude as orbit.

I have a question. does turkey have the technology to build such kind of satellite launcher for the next 6,7 years ?

 

[-SINAN-]

I have a question. does turkey have the technology to build such kind of satellite launcher for the next 6,7 years ?

Don't let the quoted part confuse you. This project is about conceptual design, not for building a SLV.

I don't think we posses such technology as for now. As far as i know we are targetting to boost our knowledge about this tech with co-development/ToT of HQ-9 ABM.

 

[Cohen1984]

Don't let the quoted part confuse you. This project is about conceptual design, not for building a SLV.

I don't think we posses such technology as for now. As far as i know we are targetting to boost our knowledge about this tech with co-development/ToT of HQ-9 ABM.

But this things are completely different stories !

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