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TRITON (FORMOSAT-7R)

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TRITON / FORMOSAT-7R is a Taiwanese GNSS-reflectometry weather and ocean mission for sea-surface wind retrieval.^[1]^[2] It launched on Vega flight VV23 from the Guiana Space Centre on 2023-10-09 UTC.^[3] The mission carries a GNSS-R payload on a mission-specific microsatellite bus and operates in Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit.^[1]^[2] Wind-speed products were released on 2024-05-31, supporting operational sea-surface wind retrieval for weather forecasting and ocean-surface wind applications.^[1]

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current status	operational
operator	Taiwan Space Agency
platform	triton-microsatellite-bus
launch vehicle	arianespace-vega
Launched	2023-10-09
orbit type	Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit
tasking supported	false
current geographic priority	Global ocean surface wind retrieval for weather forecasting
Last updated	2026-06-21
claim status	agency-sourced

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Compositional position

this ——— TRITON microsatellite bus bus

this ——— Ocean surface winds related-topic

Sources

[1]Taiwan Space Agency events: Triton launch and wind speed productsagency doc2026-06-21
[2]Flight VV23 success to the benefit of Thailand, Taiwan and cubesatsoperator press2026-06-21
[3]TRITON mission summarycommunity2026-06-21

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