# Gokturk-1
*missions*

## Specifications
- **operator**: turkish-ministry-of-national-defence
- **platform**: gokturk-1-platform
- **launch vehicle**: arianespace-vega
- **actual launch**: 2016-12-05
- **current status**: operational
- **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
- **entity type**: mission
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-21
- **verified by**: operator
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **provider**: turkish-ministry-of-national-defence
- **attributes**: {"operator":"turkish-ministry-of-national-defence","platform":"gokturk-1-platform","launch_vehicle":"arianespace-vega","actual_launch":"2016-12-05","current_status":"operational","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"}

## Editorial
Gokturk-1 is a Turkish sun-synchronous LEO optical reconnaissance and civil Earth-observation mission launched on 2016-12-05 on Vega flight VV08 [^arianespace-vv08-kit]. 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 [^arianespace-vv08-kit][^tai-gokturk-1]. Operational fit includes high-resolution taskable optical collection for disaster-damage assessment and land-cover-change workflows [^tai-gokturk-1].

## Compositional position
- Gokturk-1 --[mission_payloads]--> gokturk-1-optical-imager (products)
- Gokturk-1 --[mission_buses]--> gokturk-1-platform (products)
- Gokturk-1 --[related-topic]--> disaster-damage-assessment (topics)
- Gokturk-1 --[related-topic]--> land-cover-change (topics)

## Sources
- [arianespace-vv08-kit] | Arianespace VV08 GOKTURK-1 launch kit | https://web.archive.org/web/20161202050454/http://www.arianespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/VV08-launchkit-GB.pdf | tier=operator-engineering | accessed=2026-06-21
- [tai-gokturk-1] | Turkish Aerospace GOKTURK-1 page | https://www.tusas.com/en/products/space/satellite/gokturk-1 | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-06-21
- [wiki-gokturk-1] | Gokturk-1 summary and source index | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6kt%C3%BCrk-1 | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-21

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