Deployed six FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC micro-satellites for Taiwan's National Space Program Office, forming a GPS radio-occultation constellation to improve weather forecasting, climate monitoring, and ionospheric research.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 372 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 12 Minotaur I flights
- Date and time
- 15 April 2006, 01:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Minotaur I
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 8, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2006-011
- Launches in 2006
- 12th of 66
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