[SpaceTech] Meteorological satellites under Taiwan-U.S. Joint Venture Program FORMOSAT-7 to Be Launched in 2015 & 2017 (
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CNA – Focus Taiwan (2011/12/25) The launch date for FORMOSAT-5, a remote-sensing satellite, is scheduled for 2014, while 12 meteorological satellites under the FORMOSAT-7 program are scheduled to be launched in 2015 and 2017, the Hsinchu-based National Space Organization (NSO) said Sunday.
The 12 satellites under the FORMOSAT-7 program, a joint venture between Taiwan and the United States, will be launched in two separate groups in 2015 and 2017 due to limited staff and testing facilities, said the NSO.
NSO Deputy Director-General Hsien-cheng YU said that as the organization is currently carrying out the FORMOSAT-5 program, it has no spare capacity for the testing of the 12 FORMOSAT-7 satellites.
Six of the meteorological satellites under the FORMOSAT-7 program, designed for gathering weather information in low-latitude regions, will be launched in 2015, while six other high-latitude meteorological satellites will be launched in 2017, YU said.
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CNA – Focus Taiwan 2011/12/25
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