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Gokturk-1

Gokturk-1 is a Turkish sun-synchronous LEO optical reconnaissance and civil Earth-observation mission launched on 2016-12-05 on Vega flight VV08 ^[1]. It carries the Gokturk-1 optical imager on the Gokturk-1 platform, with tasking support, 20 km swath, and about three-day revisit for Turkish defence reconnaissance and civil EO applications ^[1]^[2]. Operational fit includes high-resolution taskable optical collection for disaster-damage assessment and land-cover-change workflows ^[2].

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current status	Operational
operator	Turkish Ministry Of National Defence
platform	Gokturk-1 spacecraft platform
launch vehicle	Arianespace Vega
Launched	2016-12-05
orbit type	Sun-synchronous LEO
swath km	20
revisit days	3
tasking supported	Yes
current geographic priority	Turkish Armed Forces reconnaissance and civil Earth-observation applications

Supply chain position

built on platform Gokturk-1 spacecraft platform

operated by Turkish Ministry Of National Defence

launched on Arianespace Vega

related to Disaster damage assessment

related to Land cover change

Sources

[1]Arianespace VV08 GOKTURK-1 launch kitoperator engineering2026-06-21
[2]Turkish Aerospace GOKTURK-1 pageoperator marketing2026-06-21
[3]Gokturk-1 summary and source indexcommunity2026-06-21

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@misc{eoatlas:missions:gokturk-1,
  title = {Gokturk-1},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/missions/gokturk-1}
}