Turkish Space Agency Explained

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]

Administrators

No.HeadTook officeLeft office
1Serdar Hüseyin Yıldırım[5] 6 August 20197 October 2023
2Yusuf Kıraç[6] 7 October 2023Incumbent

List of TSA astronauts

Name
Selection
Time in space
Missions
2023Axiom Mission 3
Tuva Cihangir Atasever20230Galactic 07

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: SON DAKİKA HABERİ: Atama kararları Resmi Gazete'de. ntv.com. 8 October 2023. Turkish.
  2. Web site: 31 December 2023 . 2 February 2024 . . T.C. Resmî Gazete. 2024 Yılı Merkezi Yönetim Bütçe Kanunu .
  3. Web site: International Cooperations - Turkish Space Agency . 2024-05-09 . tua.gov.tr . tr.
  4. Web site: ESA signs Cooperation Agreement with Turkey . 2024-05-09 . www.esa.int . en.
  5. Web site: Uzay Ajansı'nın İlk Başkanı Serdar Hüseyin Yıldırım . Haberturk.com . 8 March 2021 . Turkish.
  6. Web site: SON DAKİKA HABERİ: Atama kararları Resmi Gazete'de. ntv.com. 8 October 2023. Turkish.