Focus Taiwan
Date: 02/13/2020
By: Lu Tai-cheng and Chiang Yi-ching

Taipei, Feb. 13 (CNA) The launch of Taiwan's first domestically built rocket, the HAPITH-1, was canceled Thursday due to bad weather, the developer, Taiwan Innovative Space Inc. (TiSPACE), said that day.

The space technology company was scheduled to launch its first rocket at 6 a.m. in Nantian Village in the eastern county of Taitung, but heavy rain and strong wind shear forced TiSPACE to cancel.

According to TiSPACE Chairman Chen Yen-sen (陳彥申), many weather balloons the company released to test wind speed and direction burst before reaching their designated altitudes because of the weather.

Chen said that finally the decision was made to go through the ignition procedure of the rocket but without an actual launch, adding that a lot of data was gathered nonetheless.
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