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Official: Turk Indigenous Sat Capability on Schedule
Jul. 7, 2014 -By BURAK EGE BEKDIL

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A Turksat-4A communications satellite blasts off at Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome on Feb. 15. Turksat 6A will be Turkey's first indigenous communications satellite. (STRINGER/ / AFP/Getty Images)

ANKARA— Turkey’s efforts to build the country’s first indigenous communications satellite are progressing “at full speed,” government officials have said.

“We are meticulously working on this program, which will be one of our signature projects and pave the way for local production in the field of satellites,” said a senior official from TUBITAK, the state scientific research institute that is building the satellite.

The Turksat 6A will be a communications satellite but also will be used for military communications, officials say.

“It will be an X-band satellite with geostationary Earth orbit features,” the TUBITAK official said.

Industry sources estimate that Turksat 6A will cost Turkey about US $250 million.

TUBITAK’s local subcontractors are military electronics specialist Aselsan, military software concern Havelsan and Tusas Turkish Aerospace Industries.

Meanwhile, Turkey also is developing a program to build its first satellite launching center, which it hopes to use in its future satellite programs.

Separately, TUBITAK-UZAY, a space unit of Turkey’s state scientific research institute, is developing, in a program coded “Imece,” electro-optical cameras for satellite projects.

According to a government road map for military and civilian satellites, Turkey plans to send into orbit 16 satellites by 2020. A space industry expert based here said the next five years’ satellite contracts could amount to $2 billion.


Official: Turk Indigenous Sat Capability on Schedule | Defense News | defensenews.com
 
Can it take closer pictures?

According to this video the gokturk will be able to read license plates but im not sure which gok turk does that. Is it gokturk 2 that can read license plates?

Turkey’s Gokturk-2 Collecting Imagery with No Restrictions

PARIS — Turkey’s first medium-resolution optical Earth observation satellite, the domestically built Gokturk-2, has completed a year in orbit with successful operations that have no geographical restrictions on image gathering for military and civil applications, Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) said.

Gokturk-2, built by TAI and Tubitak Space Corp. of Turkey and launched in December 2012 aboard a Chinese Long March rocket, operates in a near-polar 700-kilometer orbit and is capable of taking images with a 2.5-meter ground resolution in black and white and 5 meters in color.

Built to operate for five years, the satellite is able to re-image a given area every 2.5 days and has 8 gigabytes of on-board data storage capacity.

The Turkish government has identified autonomy in satellite building as a national priority. The higher-resolution Gokturk-1 satellite, under construction by Thales Alenia Space of France and Italy, is scheduled for launch in 2015.

Gokturk-1 uses a non-Turkish platform, based on the Proteus bus developed by Thales Alenia Space for the French space agency, CNES, and a French optical payload with sub-metric imaging capability based on France’s Pleiades civil-military spacecraft. But the construction contract includes development of a satellite manufacturing capacity in Turkey.

In a Jan. 13 statement, TAI said Gokturk-2 has completed 5,344 orbits of the Earth “without limitation.” The company has said Gokturk-1 similarly will function “without geographical constraints over the world from any area of military intelligence with high-resolution images.”

Turkey’s Gokturk-2 Collecting Imagery with No Restrictions | SpaceNews.com
 
It says 2.5m but what is this, it can shoot picture till 2.5m close or it is shooting pictures with 2.5m size?

You can zoom photos of GÖKTÜRK 2 so much without any corruption just like you are looking at it (the part you zoomed) from 2,5m above it...
 
You can zoom photos of GÖKTÜRK 2 so much without any corruption just like you are looking at it (the part you zoomed) from 2,5m above it...
Ok thx for clarifying, our media must lear how journalism works, so the 2.5m isnt the resolution but the distance it can take pictures.
 
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