Geostationary
TURKSAT 4A
Direct-to-Home Broadcasting · Turksat / Turkey
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Turkey's high-power direct-to-home broadcasting satellite serving Turkish households and the wider Middle East. Turksat-4A delivers TRT (Turkish Radio and Television) programming alongside hundreds of commercial channels to subscribers using small dish antennas. Turkey's ambition to become a regional satellite power is reflected in the successive capability improvements in the Turksat series — from basic communications to high-power broadcasting to the broadband satellites that followed.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,230–22,255 mi (35,775–35,816 km)
- Inclination
- 0.1°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 39522
- Int’l designator
- 2014-007A
- Launched
- 2014
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 7 Nov 2026.
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