TY  - JOUR
TI  - Spaceport Selection Using a Novel Hybrid Pythagorean Fuzzy AHP & 
TOPSIS Based Methodology: A Case Study of Turkey
AB  - Space technologies have continued their development accelerated with 
Sputnik 1 launching into space in 1957 and the USA-USSR competition. The 
period that is until today, due to the increase in studies about space research 
and space technology, has been called the space age. Turkey has launched 12 
satellites from the launch of TURKSAT 1A on December 24, 1994, until 
today, and it has six active satellites. In this study, a hybrid PF AHP-PF 
TOPSIS approach has been developed on which spaceport would be the most 
appropriate choice for launching satellites when the political and diplomatic 
conditions are ignored for Turkey because of the use of various spaceports 
for the previous launchings. This study makes a concrete contribution to the 
literature through its novelty that this is the first time a spaceport selection 
problem is addressed in Pythagorean Fuzzy Environment with the welldescribed criteria. In virtue of the recent technological developments in space 
science, new opinions that new spaceports worldwide will be built to 
maintain the momentum of the space tourism industry emerging recently 
have been proposed. In this regard, this study serves as a guideline to decide 
which criteria to consider more carefully in order to build a new spaceport.
AU  - DEMIRALAY, ENES
AU  - PAKSOY, Turan
AU  - Çopur, Engin Hasan
PY  - 2022
JO  - Havacılık ve Uzay Teknolojileri Dergisi
VL  - 15
IS  - 1
SN  - 1304-0448
SP  - 1
EP  - 17
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/533397
ER  -