TÜBİTAK UZAY Institute Director Mehmet Nefes conducted an evaluation at the TÜBİTAK UZAY Mission Control Center following the launch of the Türksat 6A satellite.
Nefes explained that the satellite, which they successfully launched at 2:30 a.m., has begun its orbital transfer journey: “We started receiving the first health data, the first preliminary data about our satellite from the 67th minute. About an hour.” After receiving this data, we managed to send a command to our satellite. Currently, all of our satellite's subsystems are functioning nominally. There is no abnormality in the data we received. The problems in the defined procedure are being followed up step by step. “The orbital transfer process of our satellite also continues successfully,” he said.
“We sent Turkish commandos for the first time”
Nefes emphasized that the order that the satellite was ready for launch was conveyed to the team in the United States in Turkish by the relevant subsystem experts and technical managers at the TÜBİTAK UZAY mission control center, and made the following assessment:
“Our team in the US has transmitted this order to the relevant people there, and the command 'Our satellite is ready for launch' has been transmitted to the SpaceX launch vehicle. The previous communications satellites have always been satellites delivered from abroad, and the command that is in place is the same as the one from Turkey. We witnessed this with a heavy heart when our satellite was launched this evening. I hope we will not see any other command except the Turkish command from now on.”
The trip will last 12 days
Nefes announced that the orbital transfer process of Türksat 6A will take about 12 days and that the chemical propulsion system will perform five large burns during this journey and that the teams will perform a detailed orbit calculation before and after.
Stressing that this will be a very important and critical process that they will experience for the first time, Nefes said, “Hopefully we will complete this process successfully. The Türksat 6A satellite will reach its geostationary orbit of about 36,000 kilometers as planned.”
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