TURKEY GOES TO SPACE

Turkey's 10-year vision in the field of space policy, strategy, announced on Tuesday, including the National Space Program and project objectives.

The program prepares institutions introduced by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's speech Turkey Space Agency.

Turkey introduced by the National Space Program Space Agency's objectives have been explained to the public; also introduced its logo.

We have compiled the mission and goals of this institution, which was established in 2018.

What are their goals?

Turkey Space Agency, aerospace science and the development of technology and dissemination supportive finance, law, management, business, who works in marketing and other issues, Turkey's space for the rights and interests of preservation and carrying out coordination with national and international organizations for securing It is defined as a state institution.

Tuesday described the targets in Turkey's 10-point space travel day meeting was also shared strategic goals.

Accordingly, a rocket will be launched on the Moon in 2023.

The first Turkish astronaut will be sent to space with a science mission.

Turkey Space Agency's 10 goals described in the following way:

• Moon mission: In the 100th anniversary of the Republic, a hard landing on the Moon will be realized with a national and unique hybrid rocket that will be fired in close Earth orbit with international cooperation.
• Domestic satellite: A commercial brand that can compete with the world in the field of new generation satellite development will be created.
• Regional positioning: positioning and timing will be developed regional system of Turkey.
• Spaceport: A spaceport operation will be established to provide access to space.
• Space weather: Competence in space will be increased by investing in the area called space weather or meteorology.
• Space objects: Turkey, astronomical observations, and more competent in the subject tracking space objects from the floor to be brought into a position.
• Space industry: Integrated studies will be carried out with the industrial cluster in the space field.
• Space technologies development zone: A space technology development zone will be established together with METU to host domestic and foreign investors.
• Space awareness: Space awareness will be created in order to develop effective and competent human resources in the field of space. Graduate and doctoral scholarships will be awarded in clearly defined fields. National and international summer schools, courses and workshops will be organized.
• Turkish astronaut: A Turkish citizen will be sent to space on a science mission.

Who is on the agency's board of directors?

Turkey Space Agency was established by Presidential Decree on December 13, 2018.

The Agency, affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Technology, held a meeting called "National Space Program Workshop" in Gebze in January 2019.

No information about the workshop or subsequent work was shared until President Erdogan's speech on Tuesday.

Since the beginning of the Space Agency in August 2019 Serdar Turkey Huseyin Yildirim had.

Originally from Rize, 60-year-old Yıldırım was previously the General Manager of Aviation and Space Technologies at the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, and before that, as the general manager of the State Airport Operations.

Yıldırım started his undergraduate education at Istanbul Technical University Aeronautical Engineering Department and graduated from Berlin Technical University Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

He completed his master's degree in the field of Aviation and Space Sciences at Berlin Technical University.

He gave airline management lessons at Kadir Has University.

He worked as a project consultant and manager in various airline companies.

After he came into office gave his first interview Lightning, "this launch especially made in the ocean or desert regions. We can do it in another country with the cooperation of. Existing, for example, may also use a base in Kazakhstan. However, underlying my heart with a reach Turkey's space. We are making satellites, this was not an easy task. But how do we throw it, we have to throw it to someone. I want to throw it as well, "he said.

Other board members of the agency are Cenk Şen, Yurdanur Tulunay Ahmed Halid Akgiray, Sacit Özdemir, Lokman Kuzu and Murat İkinci.

What's the story of your logo?

TUA's logo was also shared for the first time at the National Space Program publicity meeting.

The story of the agency's logo is as follows:

"The TUA logo symbolizes an uninterrupted, decisive movement extending into the unknown, deep into the universe. The character of this movement extends from the functional legibility of Western typography to the one-breath calligraphy of the ancient culture of the East.

"A giant rocket's different scale up to a small lapel badge from the body and legibility of the applications, letters designed to lose the signal feature in the resulting picture together eklemlenirk the 'star' image represents our Order in the sky flag. That's nice logo, signature of the new Turkey's success in space it will be."

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