Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Türksat 2A aka Eurasiasat 1 is 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 Eurasiasat SAM in Monaco.Türksat 2A was launched by Arianespace atop an Ariane-44P H10-3 launch vehicle on January 10 2001 at 21:39 UTC from ELA-2 at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou French Guiana.