Transport and Infrastructure Minister Adil Karaismailoğlu announced today that the Türksat 5B satellite will be launched by SpaceX on 19 December. Karaismailoğlu also gave information about the satellite.
At the beginning of 2021, SpaceX company, headed by Elon Musk, carried out the first mission of the year by launching Türksat 5A, the communication satellite developed by Turkey in partnership with Airbus. Following the Türksat 5A satellite, which entered service in the second quarter of this year, Türksat 6A, which will be Turkey’s first national communication satellite, will be launched by SpaceX in the first quarter of 2023. was announced.
The partnership between Turkey and SpaceX, which saves a lot of money thanks to the technologies it develops in space missions, was also revealed in a new statement today. Our next satellite is Adil Karaismailoğlu, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, in a press release at the Türksat General Directorate. About Turksat 5B gave information.
Türksat 5B will be launched by SpaceX on December 19
Karaismailoğlu announced that the Türksat 5B communication satellite was recently received from Airbus facilities and shipped from France to the USA on 29 November. Then Türksat 5B satellite On Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 06:58 SpaceX announced that it will launch with a Falcon 9 rocket.
Like every SpaceX mission, Türksat 5B mission can be watched live.
Ka-Band capacity will increase 15 times
Minister Karaismailoğlu stated that the Ka-Band capacity of Türksat 5B satellite, which has satellite and communication facilities in Turkey, It will increase 15 times explained. The Minister stated that Türksat 5B will be our most powerful satellite in terms of load and power values, compared to fixed class satellites. It is 20 times more efficient stated. He added that the new satellite will provide a data transmission capacity of more than 55 Gbps in total with its Ka-Band payload.
Türksat 5B will also include the first locally designed equipment
According to the statement, Türksat 5B will use two communication equipment manufactured in our country. In this way, for the first time, the equipment designed and produced locally on a commercial communication satellite will be sent to space. Turksat 5B, Over 35 years of service and will be actively involved in commercial sectors such as maritime and aviation.