Orbited ROCSAT-1, Taiwan's first satellite, carrying an ocean-color imager, an experimental communications payload and an ionospheric plasma instrument into a 600 km circular orbit from Cape Canaveral for National Space Organization science operations.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 403 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 4 Athena I flights
- Date and time
- 27 January 1999, 00:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Athena I
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 46, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1999-002
- Launches in 1999
- 2nd of 78
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