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TURKSAT 6A
Commercial Communications (Domestically Built) · Turksat / TAI / Turkey (First Domestic Satellite)
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Turkey's first domestically designed and built communications satellite — a milestone comparable to India's ARSAT or Argentina's ARSAT programs. Turksat-6A was built by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) using primarily domestic technology, fulfilling Turkey's ambition to become an independent satellite manufacturing nation. The satellite provides Ku-band capacity for Turkish communications services and represents decades of investment in building indigenous satellite engineering capability.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,230–22,254 mi (35,776–35,814 km)
- Inclination
- 0.0°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 60233
- Int’l designator
- 2024-127A
- Launched
- 2024
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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