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FORMOSAT-5 spacecraft bus

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Indigenously developed FORMOSAT-5 spacecraft platform.

FORMOSAT-5 spacecraft bus is the indigenously developed platform for Taiwan's FORMOSAT-5 Earth-observation satellite ^[1]^[2]. National Space Organization and TASA are the manufacturer and operator context for the mission, which was Taiwan's first indigenously developed optical remote-sensing satellite ^[1]^[2]. The bus is an octagonal-prism spacecraft platform about 2.8 m tall and about 1.6 m across ^[1]. Mass appears as 475 kg launch mass and about 450 kg spacecraft weight ^[1]^[2]. The mission carried the optical Remote Sensing Instrument and Advanced Ionospheric Probe in a sun-synchronous orbit around 720 km ^[1].

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platform for FORMOSAT-5

Sources

[1]NSPO FORMOSAT-5 satelliteagency doc2026-06-26
[2]FORMOSAT-5 mission overviewcommunity2026-06-26

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@misc{eoatlas:products:bus:formosat-5-bus,
  title = {FORMOSAT-5 spacecraft bus},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/products/bus/formosat-5-bus}
}