Turkish Baykar announced plans to send a satellite into space in 2025.

One of the largest manufacturers of unmanned aerial vehicles in the world, the Turkish company Baykar expects to send its first satellite into space in 2025, Selcuk Bayraktar, chairman of the board of directors of the company said.

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“Work on our space initiative has been going on for 1.5 years now. We are not going where everyone else is going, we are anticipating the future and preparing to race for that future today. We are working on low-orbit command satellites and orbital vehicles. In 2025 we will send our first satellite into space,” he said.

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The company will develop a satellite that will support the development of innovations for global navigation systems and special communications applications, he said.

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“We are also working on orbital vehicles in space technology,” he said.