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Taiwan Space Agency
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Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) is Taiwan's civilian national space agency under the National Science and Technology Council, based in Hsinchu Science Park and renamed from National Space Organization on 19 January 2023 following a status upgrade [1][2]. Its mandate covers space technology development and research, with a portfolio spanning optical Earth observation, GNSS radio occultation, and GNSS reflectometry missions [1][3].
FORMOSAT-5 provides optical Earth observation from a 720 km sun-synchronous orbit with 2 m panchromatic and 4 m multispectral imagery [4]. FORMOSAT-8 is the follow-on Earth-observation constellation, with satellites listed around 380 kg and panchromatic resolution near 0.7 m; the first FORMOSAT-8 satellite launched in 2025 [5][6]. TRITON launched on 9 October 2023 and extends the agency's portfolio into GNSS reflectometry for oceanographic observations from a 601 km sun-synchronous orbit [3].
Operates
- FORMOSAT-5extended
launched 2017-08-24 / Sun-synchronous LEO, about 720 km / 2 day revisit / 24 km swath
- TRITON (FORMOSAT-7R)operational
launched 2023-10-09 / Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit
- FORMOSAT-8operational
launched 2025-11-28 / Sun-synchronous LEO, about 560 km for first deployed satellite / 1 day revisit / 10 km swath
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- [1]Taiwan Space Agency - Wikipediacommunity2026-06-20
- [2]Triton (FormoSat-7R) - eoPortalcommunity2026-06-20
- [3]Formosat-5 - Wikipediacommunity2026-06-20
- [4]Taiwan Space Agency Rebrands As TASA - TLP Networkthird party2026-06-20
- [5]Formosat-8 - Wikipediacommunity2026-06-20
- [6]Taiwan Formosat-8 Satellite Successfully Launched - FAPAthird party2026-06-20