Mehmet Fatih Kacır, Deputy Minister of Industry and Technology of the Republic of Turkey; He visited the engineers and technicians of the high-resolution surveillance satellite İMECE and the first national communication satellite TÜRKSAT 6A at the TAI Space Systems Integration and Test (USET) Center. Deputy Minister Kacır; “We will send two national satellites into space on the 100th anniversary of the Republic.” He stated that the IMECE and TÜRKSAT 6A satellites will be launched in 2023.
During his visit to TUSAŞ USET Center, TUSAŞ General Manager Temel Kotil and President of the Turkish Presidency Digital Transformation Office Ali Taha Koç attended. Digital Transformation Office President Ali Taha Koç shared on his account, “We continue to develop our domestic and national products in every field. We examined our high-tech satellite TÜRKSAT 6A with our Deputy Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır. We are proud of our country.” made statements.
TÜBİTAK and the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure are the funding institutions in the TÜRKSAT 6A Project, which was initiated with the aim of developing Turkey's first domestic and national communication satellite and meeting the satellite needs of TÜRKSAT A.Ş., while TUSAŞ, TÜBİTAK UZAY, ASELSAN and CTECH. companies are working as contractors. As the end user of the satellite, TÜRKSAT A.Ş. is located.
In the current situation, TUSAŞ successfully completed the Thermal Structural Adequacy Model (IYYM) in 2018. TUSAŞ, which completed the production, integration and test activities of the structural, thermal control and chemical subsystems under its responsibility for the Engineering Model in 2019, has also come to an end in the production of the Flight Model (UM) to be sent to space.
Space Systems Integration and Test Center (USET)
In 2015, the first and only Space Systems Integration and Test Center of our country, which was put into service at the main campus of TAI, simulating the environmental conditions that all space systems with ground observation, communication and similar features will encounter in the period from launch to orbit. is being done.
The investment cost is determined by the Defense Industry Presidency (SSB), the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and TÜRKSAT A.Ş. In this center, which has approximately 9.500 m2 of closed area, 3.800 m2 of 100.000 class clean rooms and ground support equipment, which is covered by TAI and operated by TAI, assembly, integration and testing activities of more than 5 tons of satellites can be carried out simultaneously.
Source: defenceturk
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