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Minotaur I | COSMIC 1-6
Orbital Sciences Corporation · Minotaur I · Space Launch Complex 8, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Orbital Sciences Corporation's 50th launch · 3rd this year · humanity's 4,763rd orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Apr 15, 01:40 – Apr 15, 01:40 UTC
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COSMIC 1-6
In early 2001, the National Space Program Office (NSPO) of Taiwan, Republic of China, selected Orbital for a $56 million contract for the ROCSAT-3/COSMIC (Republic of China Satellite / Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate) program. ROCSAT was renamed FORMOSAT in December 2004. The FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC program is an international collaboration between Taiwan and the United States that will use a constellation of six remote sensing microsatellites to collect atmospheric data for weather prediction and for ionosphere, climate and gravity research. Data from the satellites will be made freely available to the international scientific community in near real-time.
Earth Science · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
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