Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, speaking at the commissioning ceremony for the country’s home-produced TÜRKSAT 6A on April 21st, said that Turkey was now one of only a few counties capable of producing its own satellites.
“With TÜRKSAT 6A, which we developed with a domestic production rate of over 80 per cent, Türkiye has become one of the 11 countries capable of producing its own communications satellite,” said Erdoğan. “With the launch of TÜRKSAT 6A, which will provide service for at least 15 years, the number of communication satellites operated by TÜRKSAT increases to six, and the total number of our satellites in space increases to 10. Our new geosynchronous communications satellite will provide a wide coverage area for emergency communication services, especially television broadcasting.”
“With our indigenous and national communications satellite, the area covered by TÜRKSAT will be further expanded to include India, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. The number of people reached by our satellites worldwide will increase from 3.5 billion to 5 billion,” Erdoğan added.
Underlining that Turkey has gained a national and indigenous communications satellite platform through this revolutionary project, Erdoğan said: “In addition to the main stakeholders, we have established a satellite production ecosystem with subcontractors, enabling many institutions and organizations to contribute to the space industry. With dozens of engineers and personnel taking active roles at all stages, we have trained human resources for satellite and space technologies. With the equipment developed by project stakeholders, we have reached a level of competitiveness on an international scale and further strengthened our export capacity. In addition to carrying out joint work with SpaceX, the launch process was also managed by TÜRKSAT. With a coverage area of more than 60 percent of the world’s population, i.e. 5 billion people, we have become one of the leading countries in space studies and satellite broadcasting. With these achievements and activities, we have seized an important opportunity to create our national satellite brand and establish a national space company. We will also benefit from this experience in the realization of future lunar and deep space missions, communication satellites and satellite constellation projects, we will reach our goals by constantly raising the bar.”
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