Turkish Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said early today that Turksat 6A, Ankara’s first homegrown communications satellite, had completed its fifth and final ignition. “The fifth and final ignition, which lasted for 5.5 minutes and began at 23:58 (20:58 GMT), was successfully completed,” Uraloglu wrote on X. “Everything is going smoothly and under control in our space journey,” he added. Turksat 6A was launched last week into space after ten years of work, bringing the number of Turkiye’s active satellites to nine. After successfully passing all tests, Turksat 6A was launched into space by Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket on 8 July. Turksat 1C, the successor of the first communications satellite, Turksat 1B, was launched in 1996, followed by […]
