Objectives and Applications
Providing 2 meter resolution of image in panchromatic band and 8 meter resolution in multispectral bands with swath of 24 km with daily revisit capability for and large ground coverage for applications including disaster investigation, environment monitoring, and vegetation evaluation.
Full Name
FORMOSA Satellite No. 2
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
TASA
Launch Date
21 May 2004
Mission Links
EOL Date
01 Aug 2016
Orbit Type
Orbit Period
103 minutes
Orbit Sense
Orbit Inclination
97.7 deg
Orbit Altitude
891 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
10:00
Repeat Cycle
1 days
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
MS - Multispectral Imager |
| PAN (FORMOSAT) - Panchromatic Imager |