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Rocsat 2 was launched on 20 May 2004 by a Taurus XL from from Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA. Rocsat-2 is the second high-resolution Earth observation satellite built for Taiwan's National Space Program Office (NSPO), whose mission is regional remote sensing, including data gathering for natural disaster evaluation, agricultural applications, urban planning strategy, environmental monitoring and ocean surveillance. ROCSAT 2 has a 0.60m diameter telescope with a 2 m resolution black-and-white imager and an 8 m resolution colour imager as well as a detector to study lightning 'sprites'. ROCSAT 2 was renamed FORMOSAT 2 in December 2004. EADS Astrium was prime contractor for the space segment of the Rocsat-2 programme, and supplied both the platform (the first application of the company’s Leostar bus) and the on-board remote-sensing instrument RSI (the first all-silicon carbide instrument). Rocsat-2 was EADS Astrium’s first Earth observation commercial export contract. Astrium Lampoldshausen was responsible for supplying the Rocsat 2 Attitude and Orbital Control System and for providing launch support services. The launch of Rocsat 2 was the seventh overall for the Orbital Sciences Corporation's Taurus. It was also the first of the upgraded Taurus XL vehicle, which uses the first and second stage motors from the Pegasus XL booster, also built by Orbital.
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