Taiwan sends 1st FORMOSAT-8 satellite to U.S. for November liftoff

The first satellite of FORMOSAT-8, Taiwan's first domestically developed optical remote sensing satellite constellation, left the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) headquarters in Hsinchu on Tuesday for a November launch in the United States.

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