After President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that IMECE will meet with space on January 15, Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank, Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. (TUSAŞ) visited USET in Akıncı Facilities. During his visit, Minister Varank was accompanied by TÜBİTAK President Hasan Mandal and TÜBİTAK UZAY Institute Director Mesut Gökten.
Nurus, one of Turkey's famous furniture companies, has taken under protection the IMECE satellite, which will go on a space journey on January 15th. The carrier cabin produced by Nurus with domestic and national facilities and the air conditioning system that will operate accordingly will be a “walking clean room” for IMECE. IMECE, developed by the TUBITAK Space Technologies Research Institute (UZAY), will be safe on the launch pad in the USA until it is loaded onto the rocket.
Industry and Technology Minister Mustafa Varank noted that the cabin, which was developed with domestic and national facilities at half the price of its counterparts, was completed in 14 months and said, "Here is a company that we classically think of in the furniture industry, with its own engineers and technicians and its own design, has produced a high-tech cabin that can carry satellites." said.
After President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that IMECE will meet with space on January 15, Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank, Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. (TUSAŞ) visited USET in Akıncı Facilities. During his visit, Minister Varank was accompanied by TÜBİTAK President Hasan Mandal and TÜBİTAK UZAY Institute Director Mesut Gökten.
Minister Varank examined IMECE, which was developed by TUBITAK UZAY with domestic and national facilities. During the investigations, Varank was informed about the walking clean room that will protect the satellite on its way to the launch pad in the United States, produced by Nurus company.
WE WILL CARRY SATELLITE
Nurus Board Member and Chief Designer Renan Gökyay stated that when Covid-19 started, they converted the working rooms inside the factory into negative and positive pressure clean rooms and that they were made available by hospitals in Ankara, "My teacher, Hasan, the President of TÜBİTAK. 'Can you make us a walking cleanroom? We will carry satellites.' He said, 'We'll do it,' I said. This product emerged in a period of 14 months.” said.
PROTECTS FROM RAYS
Giving information about the transport cabin, which is also a clean room, Gökyay said, “IMECE, a satellite of approximately one tonne, is taken in a vertical position from the place where it was produced, brought into a horizontal position where the carrier can enter, enters the carrier and goes to the station where it will be launched, and then in the position where the satellite will be launched again. A device responsible for making it vertically loaded onto the rocket. This device can protect our satellite from all kinds of humidity, vibration and harmful rays. It can protect the satellite in any kind of fall. It can tolerate instantaneous impacts and loads up to 20 times the weight of the satellite.” he said.
INFORMATION UNDER REGISTRATION
Explaining that everything is local except for a few sensors inside the cabin, Gökyay said, “There are some things that the launcher company demands. As long as he travels in this cabin, all information is recorded. In other words, the vibrations, loads, heat, rutubet, there is a data logger system that records all of these. Everything else is local.” said.
10K DATA PER SECOND
Varank, and his entourage then entered the clean room. Here, Nurus Project Engineer Merve Yağcı said, “You are in the ISO 7 class clean room right now. But we also have air purifier. This is a room suitable for all heat, pressure and adverse conditions. In this system, we can collect 10 thousand data per second. You can think of it as two projects, one is a container and the other is a manipulator.” gave the information.
Making an assessment after the examinations, Minister Varank said in summary:
CARRYING IS ALSO ANOTHER TECHNOLOGY
President of the Republic announced that İMECE will be launched into space on January 15, 2023. After this good news of our President, we first visited USET. Producing your domestic and national observation satellite is a capability, but carrying this satellite to the area to be launched and loading it into a rocket actually requires another technology and capability. Previously, we sent our satellites to the launch sites in transport cabins or containers produced by foreign companies. What can be our domestic and national capabilities regarding the transportation of the IMECE satellite to the area to be launched into space? We did a study that we can bring this capability to our country with whichever companies we work with, and as a result, we reached Nurus company.
MAIN WORK FURNITURE
In fact, Nurus is one of the veteran companies of the furniture industry, but when you look at it, we are a company that develops very different technology projects with an R & D center. TÜBİTAK UZAY, in cooperation with Nurus, produced the cabin that will carry our domestic and national observation satellite İMECE, which you can see behind us. He didn't just manufacture that cabinet. At the same time, with the machine you see here, he produced this device that will allow the satellite to be taken from USET, placed in this cabin, and then placed on the rocket that will carry it into space.
WALKING CLEAN ROOM
While this may seem like a carry-on activity, the carriage booth you see behind me is actually a walking clean room. You know, satellites have to be stored under very special conditions before being launched into space. All production activities take place in the clean room. Therefore, this cabin, which has its own air-conditioning system, which will protect the satellite from all kinds of factors and provide clean room conditions, and which will protect the satellite against all kinds of impacts and pressure, has emerged.
THE ROLE OF DESIGN AND R&D
In a short period of 14 months, our company produced both this machine and the transport cabin you see behind us. We always emphasize Turkey is making great efforts to move to a model that prioritizes growth through investment, production, employment and exports. Of course, added value is the basis of these works. The way to reach added value is through design and R&D. Here is a company that we classically think of in the furniture industry, with its own engineers and technicians, has produced a high-tech cabin that you can see behind us that can carry satellites with its own design.
SOPHISTIC, HIGH TECHNOLOGY
Of course, we, as the ministry, are pleased to have brought this capability to Turkey, but we are also happy with the fact that we could only buy equivalents at twice the price. However, because we produce locally and nationally, we have brought such a sophisticated, high-tech, self-air-conditioned walking clean room to our country for half the price. We will send our satellite, but we will also support our company to get a share from the international arena in this field. Since we can develop such sophisticated products at more affordable prices, of course, we have a chance to get a share from our other competitors in the market.
It will serve at an altitude of 680 km.
IMECE, which will be launched from the USA, will serve in a simultaneous orbit to the Sun at an altitude of 680 kilometers and will display images within 48 hours after the launch. IMECE, which will obtain high-resolution images from all over the world without geographical restrictions, will serve Turkey in many areas such as detection and diagnosis, natural disasters, mapping, agricultural applications. The design duty life of the satellite, which can be used for civil and security purposes, is planned as 5 years.
TURKEY'S FIRST SUB-METER ELECTRO-OPTICAL SATELLITE
Together with IMECE, Turkey will have an Electro-Optical satellite camera with sub-meter resolution for the first time. IMECE, which will meet Turkey's high resolution image needs, will display images within 15 hours after the launch on January 48th. IMECE, which is planned to be ready for launch in November after the tests that will start this month, will obtain high resolution images from all over the world without geographical restrictions.
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