Taiwan's first self -made meteorological satellite wind hunting was originally scheduled to be liter in French Guyana on the morning of Saturday (October 7), but abnormal signals appeared during the reducing period and the launch task was urgently canceled.
According to Taiwan Zhongshi News Network and the Central News Agency, the wind hunting originally expected to take the Overga Rocket (VEGA) Rockets at 9:36 am in Taiwan time, and launched from the space center of French -owned Guiyan in South America.However, in the 14th second of the rocket, the signal was abnormal, and the last second of the countdown did not ignite. The warning red light was on at the scene, and the launch was forced to cancel.
Wu Zongxin, director of the Taiwan "National Space Center", said that the problem is not on the satellite. The specific reason is to be clarified. It may be that the launch field or the rocket needs to be eliminated.Hilvening on the air is expected to notify the Rocket Company.
Triton weighs about 250 kg, which is a satellite developed, designed and manufactured by the "National Space Center".It is equipped with a global navigation satellite system reflex signal receiver (GNSS-R) developed by the Space Center, and collects the global navigation satellite system signals reflected by the surface on the low earth orbit to conduct research on sea gas interaction and typhoon intensity prediction.
The wind hunting satellite was shipped to French Guyana in July this year. It was originally scheduled to take off the Vega rocket of the ArrianSpace with 11 other satellites on Saturday morning.
