Communications satellite

Research teams have completed all stages of production of Türksat-6A, Türkiye's first domestically produced communication satellite, Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır has announced.

"The US assesses that China's effort to develop capabilities to 'deny, exploit or hijack' enemy satellites is a key part of its goal to control information, which Beijing considers a core 'war-fighting domain,'" commented the "Financial Times".

Having been launched by technology company SpaceX in January, Turkey's fifth-generation communication satellite Turksat 5A is ready for service at 31 east meridians.

The number of Turkey's active communications satellites will climb to six while providing services to three continents, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Cahit Turhan has said.

France plans to develop antisatellite laser weapons, but will only use it for self-defense, the defense minister said, outlining the country's new military space strategy.

August 17 this year makes 40 years since the launch of the first satellite-to-space signal in Bulgaria. The occasion was the opening of the international "Universiada 77" on August 17, 1977. The ceremony is transmitted directly to the cosmos from the newly-built 30 km from Sofia station, then called Shipka Earth Space Station, now called "Plan".

The first Bulgarian communication satellite by the Geostationary orbit BulgariaSat-1 finished all main procedures for montage and tests by the company Space Systems/Loral (SSL) in Palo Alto, California successfully, Dnevnik announced.

With various countries across the globe striving towards wireless internet connections, their move could cause the earth's orbit to fill with dangerous space junk.

The development of the SAS in Nemea, Peloponnese, will be a key infrastructure milestone for EAN, which was unveiled by Inmarsat last month as the first aviation passenger connectivity solution in Europe to combine an advanced satellite network and LTE-based ground network, the latter of which will be operated by Deutsche Telekom.

European satellite operator Eutelsat Communications and social media giant Facebook said Oct. 5  they are working jointly to deliver satellite broadband Internet to connectivity-hungry sub-Saharan Africa.