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TRITON (FORMOSAT-7R)

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]

Supply chain position

built on platform TRITON microsatellite bus

operated by Taiwan Space Agency

launched on Arianespace Vega

related to Ocean surface winds

related to Weather nowcasting

Sources

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

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@misc{eoatlas:missions:triton,
  title = {TRITON (FORMOSAT-7R)},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/missions/triton}
}