Organization:SpaceTurk

Short description: Turkish space research group

SpaceTurk, founded in 1998 as the Turkish Space Research Group, is a non-profit and volunteer group dedicated to work on space research. The group's activities so far are:

• Execution of the Middle East and Turkey representative of the United Nations Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC).
• Establishment of Space Association of Turkic States (SATS).
• Yuri's Night organizations in several cities including Ankara and Istanbul.
• World Space Week organizations in several cities with a high participation rate of primary schools.
• Detection of environmental pollution due to the oil spills from the tankers with satellite views.
• Detection of the deforestation in Burundi with remote sensing.
• System design for a civilian, peace and science aimed launcher (ATA1 project).

See also

• List of astronomical societies

External links

• SpaceTurk official website
• UNSGAC 2002-2003 Annual Report [1]
• World Space Week 2001 Annual Report [2]