Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Göktürk-1 is a high resolution earth observation satellite designed and developed for the Turkish Ministry of National Defence by the Italian space service company Telespazio in cooperation with Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ).The agreement to build Göktürk-1 was signed on July 13 2009 between the Ministry of National Defence and Telespazio a Finmeccanica/Thales Group joint venture company taking effect on July 19 2009. Thales Alenia Space is in charge of supplying the satellite bus.