2.2.2 spase://SMWG/Observatory/ROCSAT-1 ROCSAT-1 Formosat-1 Republic of China Satellite-1 2019-05-05T12:34:56Z ROCSAT-1 is Taiwan's first experimental scientific satellite. It was launched from Cape Canaveral on January 27, 1999 by an Athena 1 into a circular orbit at 600 km altitude and 35 degree orbit inclination. The nodal precession makes the spacecraft drift around the Earth every 52 days. The payload included three instruments: the Ocean Color Imager (OCI), the Experimental Communication Payload (ECP) and the Ionospheric Plasma and Electrodynamics Instrument (IPEI). The ROCSAT-1 mission officially ended on June 16, 2004. The OCI homepage is at http://www.oci.ntou.edu.tw/ and the IPEI homepage at http://csrsddc.csrsr.ncu.edu.tw/ spase://SMWG/Person/Shin-Yi.Su GeneralContact spase://SMWG/Person/Dieter.K.Bilitza TechnicalContact NSSDC's Master Catalog https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1999-002A Information about the ROCSAT-1 mission Earth.NearSurface.Ionosphere