Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Türksat 4A is a Turkish communications satellite operated by Turksat. It was constructed by Mitsubishi Electric (MELCO) of Japan based on the Spacebus MELCO DS2000 satellite bus and was launched by the American-Russian joint-venture company International Launch Services (ILS) atop a Russian Proton-M space launch vehicle on February 14 2014 at 21:09:03 from Site 81/24 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.The in-orbit delivery contract for the satellite was signed in March 2011.