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Article: LAUNCH DAY FOR TAIWAN'S ROCSAT-2 TO BE FINALIZED MID-OCT.
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- AsiaPulse News
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- September 30, 2003
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TAIPEI, Sept 30 Asia Pulse - National Applied Research Laboratories (NARL) President Lee Lou-Chuang said Monday that integration tests for the ROCSAT-2 satellite have been completed and that launch day will be finalized in mid-October.
Lee, who serves concurrently as the director of NARL's National Space Program Office, said the final launch day could be late November or mid-December.
He noted that ROCSAT-1, which was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in January 1999, is now functioning well, gathering important scientific data ...