A similar report showed up recently on the Satellite Today report:
[Satellite TODAY 12-29-10] Turkey plans to send 3USAT, the nation’s first
homemade communications test satellite, into orbit in September, satellite
communications operatorTurksat announced Dec. 28.
The satellite, under development at the Istanbul Technical University, is
part of a Turksat program to manufacture Turkey's first communications
satellite by 2015.
“The satellite will provide wireless voice transmission over an amateur
band between two groups of people at two distant locations. Next month, we will
announce where the new satellite will be launched from,” Istanbul Technical
University Professor Alim Rustem Aslan said in a statement.
India placed Turkey's first homemade cubic satellite into orbit in
September 2009.
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