Spy satellite launch delayed

[ekrem]

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan set a date of 2012 for the launch of the country's first spy satellite, state-run news agency Anadolu Ajansi reported.

WSJ.com

The road-map for Gokturk Block-1 was 2011.
I hope, that the other satellites will be launched in schedule.

This is the new schedule plan:

- 6 spy satellites between 2012 - 2020
---- 3 optical satellites
---- 2 Synthetic Aperture Radars
---- 1 Infra-Red Heat-Seeker

 

[ekrem]

To new schedule, both will be launched 2012

Göktürk-1

Göktürk-2

 

[ekrem]

Till the SAR-Satellites (Synthetic Aperture Radars) become available, we will use the ANKA system for all-weather inteligence. ANKA has SAR payload.

Pictures are from the prototype. It will become operational in 2012.
TAI Anka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ANKA-B version will be armed with Cirit laser-guided missiles. The missile is currently in production and will enter service in 2011.
Roketsan Cirit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[ekrem]

It's no spy-satellite, it will be used for civilian use
- monitoring forest-fires
- identification of deforestration and reforestation areas.

It will be launched December 16th 2010.

RASAT - TÜBITAK UZAY Space Technologies Research Institute +90 312 210 1310

 

[Big Black Dog]

Seems like the more crap that gets send up into space, the worse our winters get here in the mid-west. I wonder...

 

[ekrem]

Seems like the more crap that gets send up into space, the worse our winters get here in the mid-west. I wonder...

TUBITAK = Agency for management, funding and conduct of research in Turkey.
We are centralist State.

 

[ekrem]

Specification of low-cost rocket carrier experiment:

The roket is 14,7 meter in length and will be capeable of 10 kg payload.
The payload will be released in 500 km height.
The roket just costs about 6 Million $.
Development of launch roket is budgeted with 145 Million $.

http://www.spaceturk.com/kutup/ATA_1_roketsistemi.pdf


Above budget only covers 2005-2014 period.
This covers up to 2020:

Under the table it says, that in 2016 the programm will go into revision and the 2016-2020 costs are only estimated and yet not budgeted for that period.

Project code 01-01: Development of launch roket (145 Million $)
Project code 01-02: Development of space shuttle for manned launches (1 Billion $)
Project code 01-03: Satellite capabilities (400 Million $)
Project code 01-04: Space center (1,1 Billion $)

 

[ekrem]

In the Middle-East there will be a mini-CERN built in Jordan under the SESAME project which is coordinated by UNESCO.
Its components come from recycled components of USA, Germany, UK, Switzerland and France.
Under SESAME, scientists from Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Palestine Authority and Turkey come together.
It will be a mini-CERN of Middle-East.

...but Turkey has started to look at its national needs for an accelerator center. TAC would be a much larger facility built in Turkey’s backyard, making the study of particle physics much more accessible.
(...)
The design plan for the TAC is to have a combination of an electron linear accelerator and a positron storage ring that could be used individually or as a unit for a wide range of experiments. This would be the second combination complex build in recent years; the Beijing Electron Positron Collider also combines a particle collider and an X-ray light source.

SOURCE: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
symmetry breaking Blog Archive Turkey plans an accelerator center


It will be built on Ankara University, Ankara University also is coordinator between the involved universities:
- 3 German Universities
- 10 Turkish Universities
Ankara University - Turkish Accelerator Center Project


German Science Minister was also present at signing ceremony
Deal signed on establishment of Turkish Accelerator Center [ WORLD BULLETIN- TURKEY NEWS, WORLD NEWS ]

 

[waltky]

Mebbe gonna spy on Rocket Boy...

US Launches Spy Satellite From California
September 24, 2017 — A spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office has been launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying the classified NROL-42 satellite lifted off at 10:49 p.m. PDT Saturday. All systems were going well when the launch webcast concluded about three minutes into the flight.

A SpaceX rocket carrying a satellite lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Aug. 24, 2017. The United Launch Alliance sent a U.S. National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite into orbit Saturday.​

National Reconnaissance Office satellites gather intelligence information for U.S. national security and an array of other purposes including assessing impacts of natural disasters.

U.S. officials have not revealed what the spacecraft will be doing or what its orbit will be. United Launch Alliance is a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing.

US Launches Spy Satellite From California

 

[whitehall]

Who the hell is Turkey gonna spy on? Keep in mind that ICBM technology is the evil step sister of Satellite technology.