The Canadian Space Agency is the national space agency of Canada,established in 1990 by the Canadian Space Agency Act.
SSL,formerly Space Systems/Loral,LLC (SS/L),of Palo Alto,California,is a wholly owned manufacturing subsidiary of Maxar Technologies.
Orbital Sciences Corporation was an American company specializing in the design,manufacture,and launch of small- and medium- class space and launch vehicle systems for commercial,military and other government customers. In 2014,Orbital merged with Alliant Techsystems (ATK) to create a new company called Orbital ATK,which in turn was purchased by Northrop Grumman in 2018.
National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology is a Taiwanese state owned corporation,formerly part of the Ministry of National Defense's Armaments Bureau,which is active in the development,manufacturing,support,and sustainment of various weapons systems and dual use technologies.
Formosat-1 was an Earth observation satellite operated by the National Space Program Office of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to conduct observations of the ionosphere and oceans. The spacecraft and its instrumentation were developed jointly by NSPO and TRW using TRW's Lightsat bus,and was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,US,by Lockheed Martin on January 27,1999. FormoSat-1 provided 5½years of operational service. The spacecraft ended its mission on June 17,2004 and was decommissioned on July 16,2004.
Constellation Observing System for Meteorology,Ionosphere,and Climate (COSMIC) is a program designed to provide advances in meteorology,ionospheric research,climatology,and space weather by using GPS satellites in conjunction with low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites. The term "COSMIC" may refer to either the organization itself or the constellation of 6 satellites. The constellation is a joint U.S.-Taiwanese project with major participants including the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR),the National Science Foundation,the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL),the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL),SRI International on the U.S. side and the National Space Organization (NSPO) on the Taiwanese side.
Spaceflight began in the 20th century following theoretical and practical breakthroughs by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky,Robert H. Goddard,and Hermann Oberth,each of whom published works proposing rockets as the means for spaceflight. The first successful large-scale rocket programs were initiated in Nazi Germany by Wernher von Braun. The Soviet Union took the lead in the post-war Space Race,launching the first satellite,the first animal,the first human and the first woman into orbit. The United States landed the first men on the Moon in 1969. Through the late 20th century,France,the United Kingdom,Japan,and China were also working on projects to reach space.
The Space Test Program (STP) is the primary provider of spaceflight for the United States Department of Defense (DoD) space science and technology community. STP is managed by a group within the Advanced Systems and Development Directorate,a directorate of the Space and Missile Systems Center of the United States Space Force. STP provides spaceflight via the International Space Station (ISS),piggybacks,secondary payloads and dedicated launch services.
Formosat-2 is a decommissioned Earth observation satellite formerly operated by the National Space Organization (NSPO) of Taiwan. It was a high-resolution photographic surveillance satellite with a daily revisit capability. Images are commercially available from Astrium.
Space Systems Command (SSC) is the United States Space Force's space development,acquisition,launch,and logistics field command. It is headquartered at Los Angeles Air Force Base,California,and manages the United States' space launch ranges.
Universitetsky-Tatyana-2 was a small research and educational satellite mainly developed by Taiwan and Russia Moscow State University and launched on 17 September 2009 from Baikonur Cosmodrome on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket. This satellite was equally sponsored by Taiwan and Russia. Along with teamwork supported by Mexico and South Korea,the two Taiwanese institutions particularly contributed satellite computing systems,flight programmes as well as thermotic,magnetic,and digital data processing devices.
Yuei-An Liou is a Taiwanese professor at the National Central University.
The Japanese space program originated in the mid-1950s as a research group led by Hideo Itokawa at the University of Tokyo. The size of the rockets produced gradually increased from under 30 cm (12 in) at the start of the project,to over 15 m (49 ft) by the mid-1960s. The aim of the original research project was to launch a man-made satellite.
COSMIC-2 also known as FORMOSAT-7,is the constellation of satellites for meteorology,ionosphere,climatology,and space weather research. FORMOSAT-7 is a joint US-Taiwanese project including National Space Organization (NSPO) on the Taiwanese side and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the United States Air Force (USAF) on the US side. FORMOSAT-7 is the successor of FORMOSAT-3 The six satellites of the constellation were launched 25 June 2019 on a Falcon Heavy rocket. They reached their designated mission orbits in February 2021,after eighteen months of gradual orbital adjustments. Full operational capability was achieved in October 2021.
The Polish Space Agency is the space agency of Poland,administered by the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology. It is a member of the European Space Agency. The agency is focused on developing satellite networks and space technologies in Poland. It was established on 26 September 2014,and its headquarters are located in Gdańsk,Poland.
The Advanced Rocket Research Center is a Taiwanese space transport research organization headquartered at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu City,Taiwan,with a research focus in hybrid rockets. Founded in April 2012,ARRC is supported by research grants and private donors through crowdsourcing platforms.
Formosat-5 is the first Earth observation satellite manufactured and operated solely by the National Space Organization,the national civilian space agency of Taiwan. The satellite was launched from a Falcon 9 rocket on 24 August 2017,and placed into a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 720 km. Formosat-5 can capture color and more detailed monochrome images,along with measuring the ionosphere plasma's properties.
Nigeria EduSat-1 was a Nigerian nanosatellite built by the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA),created in conjunction with the Japanese Birds-1 program. It was Nigeria's first satellite built by a university. It was launched from the Japanese Kibōmodule of the International Space Station,being brought to the station as part of SpaceX CRS-11.
Capella Space is an American space company with satellite and unclassified SAR data solutions for government and commercial use. It offers space-based radar Earth observation satellites equipped with synthetic-aperture radar that can collect imagery through clouds and at night. The company is based in San Francisco,California with offices in Washington,D.C.,and Louisville,Colorado. It was founded by Payam Banazadeh,a former engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA,and William Walter Woods.
TiSPACE,officially Taiwan Innovative Space Inc.,is a space launch company from Taiwan.
