Türksat 4A

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

21:09:03

Friday February 14, 2014

Mission Details

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Türksat 4A

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Turkey signed in March 2011 a $571 million deal with Japanese technology firm Mitsubishi Electric MELCO to procure and launch Türksat 4A and Türksat 4B. The two satellites, both offering minimum 15-year service lives, will enable Türksat AS to offer telecommunication and direct TV broadcasting services throughout Turkey, as well as in Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Türksat 4A, which will be positioned at 42 degrees east longitude, will provide Ku-band high-power direct TV broadcasting channels and both C- and Ka-band communications channels. Both satellites were built on Mitsubishi Electric's DS-2000 satellite bus platform, a fully proven modular platform with the flexibility to handle a broad range of payload applications. As the ninth and tenth members of the DS2000 family of satellites, the Türksat 4A and 4B will further demonstrate the platform's well-established high reliability for in-orbit performance.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

1 Payload

4,850 kilograms

Rocket

Active
Proton-M/Briz-M

Active Since 2001

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center logo

Manufacturer

Khrunichev

Price

$65.00 million

Rocket

Height: 58.18m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 21,000 kg

GTO: 6,900 kg

Liftoff Thrust

10,027 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 4.35m

Height: 15.26m

Stages

4

Launch Site

Site 81/24

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Fastest Turnaround

6 days

Stats

Proton-M


80th

Mission

1st

Mission of 2014

2014


7th

Orbital launch attempt