How much did Türksat 6A cost to build?
Türksat 6A is Turkey's first domestically built communications satellite: a 4,250 kg geostationary satellite at 42 degrees east with Ku-band and X-band transponders and a design life of 15 years, developed under the lead of TÜBİTAK Space Technologies Research Institute with Turkish Aerospace, ASELSAN and CTech under a December 2014 agreement. It was launched by SpaceX on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral on 8 July 2024 and funded by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, Türksat and TÜBİTAK. Türksat itself said in 2017 that it costs about 600 million Turkish liras, while Wikipedia repeats an unchecked 2014 figure of about USD 250 million.
Published project estimate
TRY 600 million
Approximately $164.47 million
Cost basis: 2017
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- MassSpaceflight Now
- 4,250 kg
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