The installation of a ground station—comprising two antennas for signal exchange in UHF and S-band frequencies and a control center—has been completed on the roof of the International Metrology Institute at the TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center’s Gebze Campus. The system is ready to track RAFS satellite passes.
Monthly Archives: July 2026
The RAFS project—our ninth CubeSat project, conducted by the Turkish Space Agency (TUA)—has been completed in collaboration with TÜBİTAK. Scheduled for launch in March 2026, this 6U-sized CubeSat carries an atomic clock (the primary payload developed by TÜBİTAK MAM) and a measurement board developed by the ITU RF Laboratory. In […]