Taipei: The Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) announced Wednesday that the Taiwan-Japan co-developed small satellite "ONGLAISAT" had hit a key milestone by completing 50 imaging operations and successfully testing three key technologies.
According to Focus Taiwan, after nearly three months of in-orbit operation, "ONGLAISAT" -- ONboard Globe-Looking And Imaging Satellite -- achieved its objectives after downloading and processing 50 images of the earth, TASA said in a news statement.
Three technologies were also successfully tested -- the Korsch off-axis optical system, Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) Time Delay and Integration (TDI) image sensor, and JPEG 2000 onboard compression capability, TASA added.
Chan Chen-yu, who is running the "ONGLAISAT" project, said that small satellites -- CubeSats -- are a quicker and more affordable "pathfinder" to test emerging space technologies. He added that the project was launched to test the feasibility of systems for use in future ultra-high-resolution optical remote sensing satellites.
