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Turkish Ministry Of National Defence

The Republic of Turkey Ministry of National Defence is a national defence ministry headquartered in Ankara and active as a public authority for Turkish defence space capabilities.^[1] Its Earth-observation role includes GOKTURK-1, a high-resolution optical Earth-observation and reconnaissance mission for which the ministry is identified as operator and procuring customer.^[2]^[3] GOKTURK-1 launched on Vega VV08 in 2016.^[2] The ministry role in this EO context is public mission operation and procurement rather than commercial imagery, satellite manufacturing, or analytics provision.^[2]^[3]

Operates

Gokturk-2Extended operations
Launched 2012-12-18 / Sun-synchronous orbit, about 686 km
Gokturk-1Operational
Launched 2016-12-05 / Sun-synchronous LEO / 3 day revisit / 20 km swath

Sources

[1]Turkish Ministry of National Defence official websiteagency doc2026-06-26
[2]Arianespace VV08 GOKTURK-1 launch kitoperator engineering2026-06-26
[3]Turkish Aerospace GOKTURK-1 pageoperator marketing2026-06-26

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@misc{eoatlas:companies:turkish-ministry-of-national-defence,
  title = {Turkish Ministry Of National Defence},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/companies/turkish-ministry-of-national-defence}
}