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Formosat-1
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Formosat-1 (, formerly known as ROCSAT-1) was an Earth observation satellite operated by the National Space Program Office (NSPO; now the Taiwan Space Agency) of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to conduct observations of the ionosphere and oceans. The spacecraft and its instrumentation were developed jointly by NSPO and TRW using TRW's Lightsat bus, and was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, US, by Lockheed Martin on January 27, 1999. Formosat-1 provided 5½ years of operational service. The spacecraft ended its mission on June 17, 2004 and was decommissioned on July 16, 2004.
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Vinony's link graph records 69 inbound references to Formosat-1, and connects out to Taiwan Space Agency, FORMOSAT-2 and FORMOSAT-3.
It sits within the topics Earth observation satellites of Taiwan, First artificial satellites of a country and Spacecraft launched in 1999.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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- 402
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1999-01-27
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Technical details
- Spacecraft
- Instrumentation
- Orbit
- See also
- References
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Formosat-1 (, formerly known as ROCSAT-1) was an Earth observation satellite operated by the National Space Program Office (NSPO; now the Taiwan Space Agency) of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to conduct observations of the ionosphere and oceans. The spacecraft and its instrumentation were developed jointly by NSPO and TRW using TRW's Lightsat bus, and was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, US, by Lockheed Martin on January 27, 1999. Formosat-1 provided 5½ years of operational service. The spacecraft ended its mission on June 17, 2004 and was decommissioned on July 16, 2004.
==Technical details==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Formosat-1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.