Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Türksat 1B was a Turkish communications satellite as part of a project to form an instant network with two geosynchronous satellites that is supervised by the companies Türksat A.Ş. in Turkey and Aérospatiale of France.Türksat 1B was launched by Arianespace atop an Ariane-44LP H10+ launch vehicle along with Brasilian satellite Brasilsat B1 in a dual-payload launch on August 10 1994 at 23:05 UTC from ELA-2 at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou French Guiana.