| Turkish Space Agency | |
| Native Name: | Türkiye Uzay Ajansı |
| Seal: | Logo of Turkish Space Agency (English).svg |
| Acronym: | TUA |
| Owner: | Ministry of Industry and Technology |
| Headquarters: | Ankara, Turkey |
| Administrator: | Yusuf Kıraç[1] |
| Budget: | ₺1.702 billion [2] |
The Turkish Space Agency (Turkish: Türkiye Uzay Ajansı, TUA) is a government agency for national aerospace research as a part of the space program of Turkey. It was formally established by a presidential decree on 13 December 2018.
Headquartered in Ankara, the agency is subordinated to the Ministry of Industry and Technology. With the establishment of TUA, the Department for Aviation and Space Technologies at the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure was abolished. TUA prepares strategic plans that include medium and long-term goals, basic principles and approaches, objectives and priorities, performance measures, methods to be followed and resource allocation for aerospace science and technologies.
TUA works in close collaboration with the TÜBİTAK Space Technologies Research Institute (TÜBİTAK UZAY). It is administrated by an executive board of seven members. The tenure of board members, the chairperson excluded, is three years.
Internationally, TUA currently has agreements with Ukraine, Hungary and Kazakhstan's space programs, and claims to conduct extensive nation-wide assessments regarding membership to ESA since 2020 as part of Turkey's cooperation agreement with the agency in 2004.[3] [4]
| No. | Head | Took office | Left office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serdar Hüseyin Yıldırım[5] | 6 August 2019 | 7 October 2023 |
| 2 | Yusuf Kıraç[6] | 7 October 2023 | Incumbent |
| Name | Selection | Time in space | Missions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Axiom Mission 3 | |||
| Tuva Cihangir Atasever | 2023 | 0 | Galactic 07 |