Launch date getting closer for first locally built weather satellite

A domestically engineered weather satellite will leave Taiwan on Friday for French Guiana, where it is scheduled to be launched into space in September, after all tests found it ready to go, the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) said Monday.

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