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| Acronym | NSPO |
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| Owner | Taiwan |
| Established | October 1991 April 1, 2005 (renamed) |
| Headquarters | Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan |
| Primary spaceport | Jiu Peng Air Base, Pingtung |
| Administrator | Dr. Guey-Shin Chang (Director General) |
| Website | http://www.nspo.org.tw/ |
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| Traditional Chinese | 國家太空中心 | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 国家太空中心 | ||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Guójiā Tàikōng Zhōngxīn |
| Tongyong Pinyin | Guó́jia Tàikong Jhongsin |
The National Space Organization (NSPO; formerly known as the National Space Program Office) is the national civilian space agency of Taiwan under the auspices of the ROC (Taiwan) Ministry of Science and Technology. NSPO is involved in the development of space technologies and related research.
NSPO headquarters and the main ground control station are in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The NSPO is organized as follows:
NSPO also has numerous laboratories, such as:
The NSPO 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.
Little has been publicly revealed about the specification of the ROC (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 is 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).
Name derived from Formosa and satellite.
The first phase of Taiwan's space program involves the development of the human and technological resources required to build and maintain three satellite programs, which is expected to be completed with the launch of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC by the end of 2005. Currently, the spacecraft and instrumentation are designed and assembled in Taiwan by local and foreign corporations and shipped to the U.S. for launch by commercial space launch firms. The NSPO, the military, and Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology have also been working on the development of a sounding rocket for upper atmospheric studies.
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