Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/04/15
By: Liu Lee-jung and Ko Lin 

Taipei, April 15 (CNA) Taiwan’s new satellite constellation, FormoSat-7/COSMIC-2, was flown out of the country Monday for a scheduled launch in the United States this summer.

FormoSat-7, the second joint development by Taiwan and the U.S., is scheduled to be launched from Kennedy Space Center on June 22.

It will replace FormoSat-3, the first Taiwan-U.S. collaborative space program, with state-of-the-art instruments and equipment that collect meteorological, ionospheric and climate data.

The departure of the satellites from Taiwan was coincidentally the same day FormoSat-3 was launched into space in 2006, the Ministry of Science and Technology said on its Facebook page.    [FULL  STORY]