Spaceturk

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Founded in 1998, The Turkish Space Research Group –SpaceTurk-, is a non-profit and volunteer group dedicated to work on space research. The group activities so far are:

  • Execution of Middle East and Turkey representative of United Nations Space Generation Advisory Council UNSGAC,
  • Establishment of Space Association of Turkic States (SATS),
  • Yuri's Night organizations in several cities including Ankara and Istanbul,
  • World Space Week organizations in several cities with a high participation rate of primary schools.
  • Detection of environmental pollution due to the oil spills from the tankers with satellite views,
  • Detection of the deforestation in Burundi with remote sensing,
  • System design for a civilian, peace and science aimed launcher (ATA1 project).

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