# IMECE spacecraft platform
*bus . products*

Mission-specific spacecraft platform for the approximately 700 kg IMECE Earth-observation satellite.

## Specifications
- **product status**: operational
- **deployment context**: orbital
- **manufacturer**: tubitak-uzay
- **bus**: {"form_factor":"mission-specific Earth-observation satellite platform","platform_class":"medium"}
- **entity type**: bus
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-26
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: agency-sourced
- **provider**: tubitak-uzay
- **attributes**: {"kind":"bus","product_status":"operational","deployment_context":"orbital","manufacturer":"tubitak-uzay","description":"Mission-specific spacecraft platform for the approximately 700 kg IMECE Earth-observation satellite.","bus":"{\"form_factor\":\"mission-specific Earth-observation satellite platform\",\"platform_class\":\"medium\"}"}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
IMECE spacecraft platform is the mission-specific platform for the IMECE high-resolution Earth-observation satellite [^tubitak-imece]. TUBITAK UZAY developed IMECE to establish national satellite subsystem infrastructure for EO satellites [^tubitak-imece]. The platform is an Earth-observation satellite bus with approximately 700 kg mass, which places it in the medium class [^tubitak-imece]. IMECE operates in the context of approximately 680 km altitude, submeter panchromatic imaging, and 3.96 m RGB and NIR imaging, with launch on 2023-04-15 [^tubitak-imece].

## Compositional position
- imece (missions) --[mission_buses]--> IMECE spacecraft platform

## Sources
- [tubitak-imece] | IMECE, TUBITAK UZAY | https://uzay.tubitak.gov.tr/en/imece/ | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-26

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