missions

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].

Full specification

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current status	operational
operator	Turkish Ministry Of National Defence
platform	gokturk-1-platform
launch vehicle	arianespace-vega
Launched	2016-12-05
orbit type	Sun-synchronous LEO
swath km	20
revisit days	3
tasking supported	true
current geographic priority	Turkish Armed Forces reconnaissance and civil Earth-observation applications
Last updated	2026-06-21
claim status	unclaimed

Where this fits, supply chain

Compositional position

this ——— gokturk-1-optical-imager payload

this ——— Gokturk-1 spacecraft platform bus

this ——— Disaster damage assessment related-topic

this ——— Land cover change related-topic

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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