A Russian Proton-M rocket successfully launched this evening from Baikonur in Kazakhstan at 21:09 UTC, February 14th 2014 with the Turksat 4A satellite onboard. Turksat 4A will be positioned at 42 degrees East providing high powered TV broadcasting to Turkey as well as Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Turkey will launch a small satellite next year as a test for an ambitious communication satellite in 2015, a communication company said here on Friday. The semi-official Anatolia news agency quoted Ozkan Dalbay, director general of Turkey's satellite communications company TURKSAT, as saying: "TURKSAT plans to test a small satellite as early as 2011 and send it to space." Read more
TURKSAT 4A to be on space in 2011 Chief Executive Officer of the TURKSAT said on Friday that procurement process has started for TURKSAT 4A satellite, planned to be launched to space in 2011.
Turkey's satellite operator Turksat said on Wednesday that it plans to launch two satellites, Turksat 4A and Turksat 5A, in six years, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. Turksat has started work for a new satellite dubbed Turksat 4A which is planned to cover north and central Africa, Turksat Director-General Ozkan Dalbay was quoted as saying.