{"id":50992,"date":"2024-07-10T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-turkish-built-communications-satellite-turksat-6a\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T16:00:08","slug":"spacex-launches-turkish-built-communications-satellite-turksat-6a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-turkish-built-communications-satellite-turksat-6a\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Launches Turkish-Built Communications Satellite Turksat 6A"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>SpaceX <\/b>launched Turksat 6A on July 8, Turkey\u2019s first communications satellite built by the country. The telecommunications satellite will expand national satellite operator <strong>Turksat<\/strong>\u2019s area of coverage with four new countries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Turksat operates a number of other satellites, but this is the country\u2019s first indigenously developed satellite. According to Turksat, 90 percent of the satellite was produced within Turkey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Turksat 6A is equipped with Ku-band and X-band communication payloads developed by Turkish defense company Aselsan. The satellite will provide communication services to Turkey, Europe, and South Asia. It will add four new countries to Turksat\u2019s coverage area \u2014 India, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Turksat had the primary role, and The Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey, Aselsan, and CTech had a role as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunication is our most valuable asset, especially military communication is even more valuabl,\u201d Turkey\u2019s Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uralo\u011flu said before the launch. \u201cWe are currently providing this, but in order to be safe and protect our space homeland, we will use the satellite that we produced and [built] software for.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX launched Turksat 6A on July 8, Turkey\u2019s first communications satellite built by the country. The telecommunications satellite will expand national satellite operator Turksat\u2019s area of coverage with four new countries.&nbsp; Turksat operates a number of other satellites, but this is the country\u2019s first indigenously developed satellite. According to Turksat, 90 percent of the satellite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}