flown missionSuccess
Vega | Göktürk-1A
ArianespaceAriane Launch Area 1 (ELV) — Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Göktürk-1A
- Type
- Earth Science
- Target orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
Göktürk-1A is a high resolution earth observation satellite (greater than 50 cm) designed and developed for the Turkish Ministry of National Defence by the Italian space service company Telespazio. The Göktürk-1A satellite has a dry weight of about 1,000 kg and a design life of seven years. Its observation payload includes a high resolution optical instrument and an onboard X-band digital imaging system to handle data compression, storage and downloading.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Vega
- Family
- Vega
- Provider
- Arianespace
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- FRA
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launch site
- Pad
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV)
- Location
- Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Country
- GUF
- Timezone
- America/Cayenne
- Coordinates
- 5.2360, -52.7750