Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/08/03
By: Lee Hsin-Yin
Taipei, Aug. 3 (CNA) The FormoSat-7 satellite group, a U.S.-Taiwan collaboration that could be launched by the end of this year, will greatly improve the world’s typhoon prediction capabilities, the deputy head of the Central Weather Bureau said Friday.
The FormoSat-7 project, which will contain a constellation of six satellites, will help gather intensive data at sea between latitudes 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south, said Cheng Chia-ping (程家平).
That mostly tropical area is where many storms form and thanks to the low inclination of the satellites, with just 24 degrees between their position and the equator, more crucial information could be collected, he told CNA.
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