The China Post
Date: October 30, 20172
By: Chu Tze-wei and Elizabeth Hsu

TAIPEI (CNA) – A constellation of six satellites under the FormoSat-7/COSMIC-2

Science and Technology Minister Chen Liang-gee, left, answers questions from legislators at the Legislative Yuan on Oct. 30, 2017. Chen was answering questions from lawmakers about the FormoSat-7 program, a follow-up mission to the successful FormoSat-3/COSMIC program to meet the RO (Radio Occultation) data continuity requirements of the user community. (CNA)

project, a U.S.-Taiwan collaboration, will be launched in May or June next year, Taiwan’s Science and Technology Minister Chen Liang-gee (陳良基) said Monday.

These remote sensing micro-satellites, one of two sets of satellites originally planned under the FormoSat-7 project, are expected to collect up to four times as much atmospheric data to help monitor and predict the weather as FormoSat-3, Chen said at a legislative hearing.

Chen was answering questions from lawmakers about the FormoSat-7 program, a follow-up mission to the successful FormoSat-3/COSMIC program to meet the RO (Radio Occultation) data continuity requirements of the user community.
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