https://spacewatch.global/tag/rocketsan/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Wed, 06 Nov 2019 06:00:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/rocketsan/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2019/11/turkey-mulling-space-launch-cooperation-with-kazakhstan-out-of-baikonur-cosmodrome/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 06:00:56 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=16811 https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/turkeys-rocketsan-signs-contract-to-build-micro-satellite-launch-system/ Wed, 07 Nov 2018 06:00:59 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11171 Turkish defence contractor Rocketsan and the Turkish Presidency of Defence Industries (SSB) have signed an agreement that intends to transform Turkey into a space launching state, as well as a satellite manufacturing hub, according to a 5 November 2018 report in Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/10/turkeys-small-medium-sized-space-companies-fear-squeezed-space-business/ Wed, 11 Oct 2017 07:05:13 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=5944 Just as Turkey’s Space programme is about to be put on a permanent footing with the establishment of its national space agency, some Turkish entrepreneurs fear that they are being squeezed out of satellite and space business in favour of large companies such as Turksat, Rocketsan, and Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI). It is alleged that […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/06/turkeys-first-domestic-satellite-launch-vehicle-way-rocketsan-pioneering-turkish-aerospace-industry/ Mon, 05 Jun 2017 07:00:09 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=4699 Roketsan, one of Turkey’s leading company’s in the aerospace industry, have recently announced their plans going forward with the Turkish Satellite Launch System (SLS) project they signed with the Turkish government in 2013. A Rocketsan press release that came out right before the Turkish International Defence Industry Fair held May 9-12, 2017, revealed the company’s […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/04/turkish-space-launch-ambitions-take-shape-strategy-still-vague/ Wed, 12 Apr 2017 07:00:05 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=3989 This is the second of three reports on Turkey’s space programme. Yesterday’s report looked at the efforts underway to establish a Turkish Space Agency; tomorrow’s report examines Turkey’s military space ambitions. As Turkey finally makes some progress in establishing a Turkish Space Agency and the contours of a national space programme takes shape, attention is increasingly […]]]>