Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu and Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır will attend the farewell ceremony to be held at Mürted Airport at 12.00. Uraloğlu and Kacır are expected to make a joint statement at the ceremony.
Following the ceremony, Turksat 6A and the personnel who will participate in the launch will be sent to the United States on an Antonov AN-124 cargo aircraft. Turksat 6A's flight will take about a day, after which launch operations will begin at Space-X's facilities at Cape Canaveral Cosmodrome. The satellite is scheduled to be launched into orbit between July 8 and 15, 2024.
Local quota over 80 percent
The Türksat 6A project involved the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and TÜRKSAT AŞ as the client institution, TÜBİTAK UZAY as the project management institution and ASELSAN, TUSAŞ and C2TECH companies as the project implementing institution. Türksat 6A was manufactured by Turkish engineers at USET at TAI in Ankara with a localization rate of over 80 percent.
Türksat 6A will be in an orbit of 42 degrees East at a distance of 35,786 kilometers. With Türksat 6A, which has a power of 7.5 kilowatts and weighs 4 thousand 250 kilograms, India, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, which are not served by existing satellites, will be within Türksat's coverage area. The population reached by satellites will increase from 3.5 billion to 5 billion.
The aim is to become a satellite exporter
The commissioning of Türksat 6A is expected to significantly increase the export of Türksat satellite services to the region.
One of the goals is for Turkey, which is one of the few countries capable of producing communications satellites, to become a satellite exporter following its experience with Turksat 6A.
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