The IMECE Satellite Systems Infrastructure Project was included in the 2013 investment program of the Ministry of Development.
It aims to develop star tracker, Sun sensor, electric propulsion system, payload data record compression formatting unit and new generation flight computer in high resolution imaging satellites and transform it into economic value.
[2] The IMECE Satellite Project, supported by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), started in January 2017.
[3] The satellite has been launched on 15 April 2023 on a SpaceX's Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket as part of the Transporter-7 ridershare mission.
[4] Projected for a mission duration of five years, the spacecraft has a mass of 800 kg (1,800 lb).