Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-03-22

The science and technology minister, Chen Liang-gee, said Thursday that weather satellite Formosat-7 will hopefully launch in the summer.

Formosat-7 is a collaboration between Taiwan and the United States that will use a cluster of small satellites to gather atmospheric data to predict the weather. Chen said its data will help track the path of typhoons more accurately.

Chen said the ministry is waiting to hear from US private contractor SpaceX for a launch date. The company last year put Taiwan’s first indigenously developed satellite, Formosat-5, into orbit.    [SOURCE]