Some time ago our space established to operate the Turkish Space Agencycontinues its work. In the future Moonwho have duties such as collecting samples from TUA President Serdar Huseyin Yildirimannounced the work and strategy of the institution at an event he attended.
National Space Program speaking about his job Lightning, mentioned that the most important deficiency for the field of space studies, which Turkey later became involved in, is manpower. TUA President said, “We need manpower trained in space,” and explained how they plan to solve the problem.
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Turkish Space Agency turns to universities for staff
Serdar Huseyin Yildirim According to the statement made by Turkey Space AgentIn the future, it plans to turn to universities in our country to fill the personnel gap. Thus, it is planned to provide employment to people who have received academic education in this field, and to provide workforce to TUA.
In his speech USAworking in the space field of 270 thousand who said he was an expert Lightning, this number Turkeyin the “thousandHe also underlined that he did not find it. Same time TurkeyQuestions were also answered about the first human to be sent to space by .
We will realize this astronaut mission with international cooperation. We will work with SpaceX from the USA or Soyuz from Russia, negotiations are ongoing for this. Hopefully we will finish it this year. Astronaut training is completed in 7 months, the company we will deal with will give us the criteria, and we will make our astronaut selection in 2022. We will choose not 1 but 2 astronauts. They will get their education.
We wanted to go as a backup in case of an illness etc. Our more successful candidate will be sent into space. Our astronaut will be able to stay in space for at least a week. While we are in space, we want to conduct scientific experiments and research there. Therefore, the astronaut candidate to go will be a scientist. Of course, it must be someone who is physically fit. These will be completed by the end of 2022.
The TUA President also used the following statements about satellites in space and the studies carried out:
Currently, Turkey has 4 satellites. We will send our fifth satellite at the end of the year, “TÜRKSAT 5B” will be launched at the end of the year. There are many satellites in space; There are satellites, many satellites for intelligence, for climate, for underground surveillance. Starlink aims to send 12 thousand satellites just for communication. Now there will soon be tens of thousands of satellites in close orbit and they will be able to spy on everything.
The space station orbits just 400 km above the earth. It has now exceeded the size of a football field. There are people and astronauts there, and teams of 5 or 6 people each work. It’s an international mission. The economic life of the space station has expired, because it has a lifespan of 25 years. It is on the agenda to cancel it or turn it into a space hotel and establish 7 separate stations…
Negotiations begin with Pakistan for spaceport
The most striking speech at the event was the spaceport project. Stating that the technology and conditions are not yet suitable for a project like the International Space Station, Yıldırım said that Pakistan is still very eager to realize the spaceport project with Turkey.
So what do you think about this subject? TUAWill the work of ‘s work make our country an important competitor in the space race? You can share your views with us in the comments section.