China successfully launched the satellite for Turkey

On December 19, China successfully launched a Turkish earth observation satellite into orbit with the Truong Chinh rocket. The event was praised by Turkey as 'historical'.

Declaring from the Liuquan Satellite Launching Center in the Gobi desert in northwestern China that the satellite was launched at 12:13 and was put on a fixed orbit with a 2D Chinh Chinh rocket.

2D Chinese Chinh Chinh boosters bring Turkish satellites into orbit.

GK-2 satellites are developed jointly between the Space Technology Research Institute of Turkey and aeronautical agencies, in order to mainly serve the work of environmental protection, exploration of mineral resources, establishing Urban planning, monitoring and disaster management.

In Ankara, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan followed the launch with hundreds of others directly. 'This is the history of our country , ' said Mr. Erdogan after the launch. 'We are reaching the position of being one of 25 countries capable of producing satellites'.

Prime Minister Erdogan also said that the next target is that Turkey will become one of the few countries with its own launchers.

Meanwhile, China sees satellite launches as part of its ambitious space mission. The country brought its first female traveler, Liu Yang, into space earlier this year, on the Shenzhou-9 ship in China's first manual connection in space. Last month, China launched a European-produced telecommunications satellite into orbit. In September, Chinese missiles also launched an earth observation satellite for Venezuela.