SpaceX launches Taiwanese satellite, lands rocket stage
An Earth-observation satellite for Taiwan’s National Space Organization has been launched from California.
The Formosat-5 satellite carried off from coastal Vandenberg Air Force Base during 11:51 a.m. PDT on Thursday atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX successfully landed the rocket’s initial theatre on a worker boat in a Pacific Ocean while a second theatre continued toward circuit and deployed a satellite.
Successful deployment of FORMOSAT-5 to low-Earth circuit confirmed. pic.twitter.com/PiB7r3Zk4F
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The satellite is a initial to be entirely designed by Taiwan’s space group and is dictated to allege a nation’s space record and systematic investigate while providing tellurian imagery with a far-reaching array of uses.
Its categorical instrument is a sensor that produces high-resolution black-and-white and colour images.
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Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/spacex-launch-formosat-1.4260625?cmp=rss