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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a Turksat 6A communications satellite, lifts off at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, July 8, 2024.

Turksat 6A, Türkiye's first homegrown communications satellite, was launched this week into space as the result of 10 years of work, boosting the number of Türkiye's active satellites to nine.

Türkiye has dispatched its first domestically produced communications satellite, Türksat-6A, to the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the U.S., where it will be launched into space next month.

The satellite embarked on a 17-hour journey aboard a cargo aircraft, after which it will be entrusted to the teams of Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Unknown people called TV channels and said that bombs would go off at 11:30

Turkey and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group enjoy "a very strong partnership," the group's president said.

The development model of the Muslim world, which currently heavily relies on state institutions, must be changed, the president of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) said on April 4.

Turkey signed an agreement with Airbus Defense and Space on Nov. 9 for the production of Türksat 5A and Türksat 5B communications satellites.

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".

An Iranian-origin British businessman who was shot dead in Istanbul had been threatened by the Iranian regime for the past three months, his relatives told the BBC on April 30. 

Bulgaria's Competition Protection Commission (CPC) imposed a fine of BGN 887 260 to the communications and television provider Blizoo.

The sum, which equals 1% of the company's net income for 2013, is a penalty for an unscrupulous trade practice and potential infringement of the interests of the competition and the consumers.