The satellite will enable Turksat AS to offer telecommunication and direct TV broadcasting services throughout Turkey, as well as in Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Turksat 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.
Source:
http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/turksat-4a.htm
Turksat 4A launch poster
Nice picture? Where did you get that?
A Briz-M upper stage has been delivered to Baikonur to support the injection of the Turksat 4A satellite to orbit. An Antonov cargo aircraft carrying the Briz-M upper stage on board landed at the Baikonur’s Yubileiny Airport today.
http://www.khrunichev.ru/main.php?id=1&nid=2944 (In Russian)
I was told (unofficially), that the launch date now NET February 14. The Turksat 4A satellite will be delivered to Baikonur cosmodrome on January 16 .
I was told (unofficially too
), that the launch is planned at
00:36 (local time) on February 15, i.e. at
18:36 UTC on February 14.
And the satellite will be delivered to Baikonur now on January 17
.
Upd:
New launch time - 21:09:03 UTC on February 14
And photos from my friend from Baikonur.
More photos from Roskosmos.
Baikonur: Preparations for the launch rocket "Proton-M" spacecraft "Turksat-4A"
20/01/2014 12:19 ::
At Baikonur continues preparations for the launch of a space rocket (RKN) "Proton-M" with the upper stage (RB) "Breeze-M", intended for injection into the target orbit communications spacecraft (SC) "Turksat-4A."
January 20 in assembly and testing (MIC) 92A-50 foreign experts continue to test autonomous spacecraft "Turksat-4A."
In parallel, in the next room specialists of rocket-space industry Russia operations on the dock of the first stage of the rocket "Proton-M" with the package of the second and third stages.
Also scheduled for today transportation booster "Briz-M" to the gas station, where the operation will be performed on refueling propellants pressure vessels.
Start ILV "Proton-M" with RB "Breeze-M" and SC "Turksat-4A" scheduled for mid-February 2014
(Google translation)
http://www.federalspace.ru/20141/
New launch time - 21:09:03 UTC on February 14
Is that the correct launch time? And from which pad will this launch be from - 24 or 39? (I've seen both versions on NSF)
So it seems that pad 200/39 is down for maintenance again?
So it seems that pad 200/39 is down for maintenance again?
No, it is redistribution of loads for both launch pads.
New launch time - 21:09:03 UTC on February 14
Is that the correct launch time?
Yes, according to the latest information, launch time - 21:09:03 UTC
.
), that the launch is planned at