of National Space Organization 02/23President Tsai Meets with FORMOSAT-5 Satellite Team 08/03President of the Executive Yuan Ching-te Lai inspected FORMOSAT-7 preparation 09/21FORMOSAT-5 Imagery Service Begins 2019 02/21President Ing-wen Tsai Visited NSPO 06/25FORMOSAT-7 satellites launched into space by SpaceX on Falcon Heavy 07/17FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 successfully observed the first Radio Occultation profile 2020 03/07FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 atmospheric data were released 04/30FORMOSAT-3 constellation Completes its Mission with Honor 2021 01/24YUSAT and IDEASSAT CubeSats launched 02/03Formosat-7 constellation deployment was completed 05/31"Space Development Act" Passes Legislature's 3rd Reading 08/02professor of NCTU and head of Advanced Rocket Research Center Jong-Shin Wu established as new manager of NSPO 09/30Taiwanese seeds return from space 10/27signs contract on collaboration with NanoAvionics 2023 National Science and Technology Council placed under the direct oversight of the National Science and Technology Council and renamed the Taiwan Space Agency. The Chinese name was not changed. Taiwanese rocket launch program TASA developed several suborbital launch vehicles based on the Sky Bow II surface-to-air missile. There have been six to seven launches as of 2010. Taiwanese satellite launch vehicle program Little has been publicly revealed about the specification of Taiwan's first launch vehicle for small satellites (SLV) (小型發射載具). It should be able to place a 100 kg payload to a 500–700 km orbit. This SLV will be a major technological improvement based on existing sounding rockets and will consist of four solid propellant stages with two strap-on solid rocket boosters. Therefore, it will be in the same class of the Indian SLV-3. The inaugural launch was scheduled to take place during the second phase of the 2004–2018 space project (第二期太空計畫), placing a Taiwanese-made satellite into orbit and after the preparatory launches of 10 to 15 sounding rockets (探空火箭). Taiwanese designed and built satellites Formosat (formerly ROCSAT) The FORMOSAT (福爾摩沙衛星) name derived from Formosa and satellite (formerly ROCSAT (中華衛星) = Republic of China (ROC) + satellite (sat)). Formosat-1 (formerly ROCSAT-1): Communications and ionospheric research satellite, launched in January 1999. Formosat-2 (formerly ROCSAT-2): Ionospheric research and surface mapping satellite, launched May 2004. Formosat-3/COSMIC: Constellation of six microsatellites to perform GPS occultation studies of the upper atmosphere. Collaborative project with US agencies including NASA, NOAA and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, launched in April 2006. Formosat-5: Optical earth observation and magnetic field research as a successor to the Japanese Reimei mission. Cooperation with Japan and Canada. Launch was originally planned for 2011, it was launched in 2017. Formosat-6 was a