# Gokturk-2
*missions*

## Specifications
- **operator**: turkish-ministry-of-national-defence
- **platform**: gokturk-2-platform
- **launch vehicle**: casc-long-march-2d
- **actual launch**: 2012-12-18
- **current status**: extended
- **orbit type**: Sun-synchronous orbit, about 686 km
- **tasking supported**: true
- **current geographic priority**: Turkish defence and civil high-resolution Earth-observation applications
- **entity type**: mission
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-21
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: agency-sourced
- **provider**: turkish-ministry-of-national-defence
- **attributes**: {"operator":"turkish-ministry-of-national-defence","platform":"gokturk-2-platform","launch_vehicle":"casc-long-march-2d","actual_launch":"2012-12-18","current_status":"extended","orbit_type":"Sun-synchronous orbit, about 686 km","tasking_supported":true,"current_geographic_priority":"Turkish defence and civil high-resolution Earth-observation applications"}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
Gokturk-2 is Turkey's first high-resolution Earth-observation satellite, launched on 2012-12-18 on Long March 2D from Jiuquan into a roughly 686 km sun-synchronous orbit.[^tubitak-gokturk-2][^nasa-gokturk-2] Its passive optical payload is specified at 2.5 m panchromatic and 5 m RGB resolution. The mission supports Turkish defence and civil high-resolution EO applications, including land-cover-change, disaster-damage, and inland-water workflows [^tubitak-gokturk-2]. The mission remained operational past its twelfth year in orbit.[^wikipedia-gokturk-2]

## Compositional position
- Gokturk-2 --[mission_payloads]--> gokturk-2-electro-optical-imager (products)
- Gokturk-2 --[mission_buses]--> gokturk-2-platform (products)
- Gokturk-2 --[related-topic]--> land-cover-change (topics)
- Gokturk-2 --[related-topic]--> disaster-damage-assessment (topics)
- Gokturk-2 --[related-topic]--> inland-water (topics)

## Sources
- [tubitak-gokturk-2] | GOKTURK-2, TUBITAK UZAY | https://uzay.tubitak.gov.tr/en/gokturk-2/ | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-21
- [nasa-gokturk-2] | Gokturk 2, NASA NSSDCA | https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2012-073A | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-21
  Used for launch/orbit/operator cross-check; page fetch was unstable in browser but the spacecraft identifier is stable.
- [wikipedia-gokturk-2] | Gokturk-2, Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6kt%C3%BCrk-2 | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-21
  Lower-tier cross-check for payload and launch details.

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