{"id":80546,"date":"2013-07-31T22:47:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/international-community-questions-turkeys-satellite-launch-center\/"},"modified":"2013-07-31T22:47:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:47:26","slug":"international-community-questions-turkeys-satellite-launch-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/international-community-questions-turkeys-satellite-launch-center\/","title":{"rendered":"International Community Questions Turkey\u2019s Satellite Launch Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Turkey, Satellite, Launch<br \/>\nPublication: DefenseNews.com<br \/>\nPublication Date: 07\/31\/2013<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 150px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"6\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/bilde.jpeg\" width=\"225\" height=\"149\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<em>Turkey\u2019s Gokturk 2 satellite launches into orbit in December from China\u2019s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.&nbsp;<\/em><em>Turkey is looking to develop its own launch capabilities.<\/em><br \/>\nImage credit:&nbsp;Turkish Aerospace Industries\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Turkey has approved construction of its first satellite-launching center to accommodate country\u2019s growing satellite programs. However, the country\u2019s western allies worry that Turkey intends to use its own launching pad to fire long-range missiles they hope to build in the future. In 2011, Turkey announced plans to develop a missile with a maximum range of 2,500 kilometers, not revealing whether it would be ballistic or cruise.<\/p>\n<p>According to an official of the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM), Turkey\u2019s procurement agency, one reason for the satellite launching system project was that Turkish planners are aiming toward a compact space program, including a national launcher.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Turkey, Satellite, Launch Publication: DefenseNews.com Publication Date: 07\/31\/2013 Turkey\u2019s Gokturk 2 satellite launches into orbit in December from China\u2019s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.&nbsp;Turkey is looking to develop its own launch capabilities. Image credit:&nbsp;Turkish Aerospace Industries Turkey has approved construction of its first satellite-launching center to accommodate country\u2019s growing satellite programs. However, the country\u2019s western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80548,"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-80546","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\/80546"}],"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=80546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}