Minotaur I | COSMIC 1-6
Space Launch Complex 8
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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COSMIC 1-6
In early 2001, the National Space Program Office (NSPO) of Taiwan, Republic of China, selected Orbital for a $56 million contract for the ROCSAT-3/COSMIC (Republic of China Satellite / Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate) program. ROCSAT was renamed FORMOSAT in December 2004. The FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC program is an international collaboration between Taiwan and the United States that will use a constellation of six remote sensing microsatellites to collect atmospheric data for weather prediction and for ionosphere, climate and gravity research. Data from the satellites will be made freely available to the international scientific community in near real-time.
Minotaur I
Height 19.21 Meters
Max Stages 5
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 935 kN
Diameter 1.67 Meters
Mass To LEO 580 kg
Liftoff Mass 36 Tonnes
Launch Success 12
Consecutive Success 12
Maiden Flight 2000-01-27
Launch Failures 0
