Göktürk-2

Göktürk-2 is an Earth observation satellite designed and developed by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and built by TÜBİTAK Space Technologies Research Institute (TÜBİTAK UZAY) and Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ) for the Turkish Ministry of National Defence.

Key facts

Spaceflight.name: Göktürk-2
Spaceflight.image: TaiIDEF2015 (8).JPG
Spaceflight.image_size: 200
Spaceflight.image_caption: Model of Göktürk-2 displayed at the stand of TAI during the IDEF'15
Spaceflight.mission_type: Earth observation
Spaceflight.operator: Turkish Ministry of National Defence
Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID: 2012-073A
Spaceflight.SATCAT: 39030
Spaceflight.manufacturer: Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK)TÜBİTAK Space Technologies Research Institute (TÜBİTAK UZAY)Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ)
Spaceflight.launch_date:  UTC
Spaceflight.launch_rocket: Chang Zheng 2D

Article

6 sections

Contents

Resolution and payload
Foreign input
Israeli objections
See also
References
External links

Göktürk-2 was launched from Jiuquan Launch Area 4 / SLS-2 in China by a Long March 2D space launch vehicle at 16:12:52 UTC on December 18, 2012, one day before the initial schedule due to poor weather conditions in the region. Equipped with state of the art advanced technology developed by Turkey and a series of new enhancements to provide improved high resolution imagery, it was placed at 16:26 UTC into a low Earth orbit of . The first signal from Göktürk-2 was received at 17:39 UTC in the Tromsø Satellite Station, northern Norway.