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TURKSAT 5B
High-Throughput Broadband · Turksat / Turkey
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Turkey's Ka-band high-throughput satellite, the most powerful Turkish communications satellite ever built. Turksat-5B provides broadband internet services across Turkey with a capacity exceeding all previous Turkish satellites combined, targeting Turkey's ambitious national broadband connectivity goals and competing with terrestrial fiber in underserved areas. Turkey's Turksat is positioning itself as a provider of satellite services to Central Asian and Middle Eastern nations along historical Silk Road connectivity corridors.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,234–22,248 mi (35,782–35,805 km)
- Inclination
- 0.1°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 50212
- Int’l designator
- 2021-126A
- Launched
- 2021
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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