# IMECE
*missions*

## Specifications
- **operator**: tubitak-uzay
- **platform**: imece-platform
- **launch vehicle**: spacex-transporter
- **actual launch**: 2023-04-15
- **current status**: operational
- **orbit type**: Sun-synchronous orbit, about 680 km
- **tasking supported**: false
- **current geographic priority**: Turkish high-resolution Earth-observation capability and domestic subsystem validation
- **entity type**: mission
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-21
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: agency-sourced
- **provider**: tubitak-uzay
- **attributes**: {"operator":"tubitak-uzay","platform":"imece-platform","launch_vehicle":"spacex-transporter","actual_launch":"2023-04-15","current_status":"operational","orbit_type":"Sun-synchronous orbit, about 680 km","tasking_supported":false,"current_geographic_priority":"Turkish high-resolution Earth-observation capability and domestic subsystem validation"}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
IMECE is Turkey's first submeter-resolution Earth-observation satellite, developed by TUBITAK UZAY to build domestic high-resolution EO subsystem capability [^tubitak-imece]. It launched on 2023-04-15 on the SpaceX Transporter-7 mission and operates in a roughly 680 km sun-synchronous orbit [^tubitak-imece][^nasaspaceflight-transporter-7]. Its passive optical camera provides submeter panchromatic imaging plus 3.96 m red, green, blue, and near-infrared imaging, making the mission relevant for high-resolution land-cover-change and disaster-damage workflows [^tubitak-imece]. Public tasking is not presented as an offer. The mission is framed around domestic capability and subsystem validation [^tubitak-imece].

## Compositional position
- IMECE --[mission_payloads]--> imece-electro-optical-camera (products)
- IMECE --[mission_buses]--> imece-platform (products)
- IMECE --[related-topic]--> land-cover-change (topics)
- IMECE --[related-topic]--> disaster-damage-assessment (topics)

## Sources
- [tubitak-imece] | IMECE, TUBITAK UZAY | https://uzay.tubitak.gov.tr/en/imece/ | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-21
- [nasaspaceflight-transporter-7] | SpaceX Transporter-7 launches 51 payloads, NASASpaceflight | https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/04/transporter-7/ | tier=third-party | accessed=2026-06-21

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