TAIWAN LAUNCH RECORD (From 1998) Date Launch Vehicle Payload/Comments -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 Dec 98 SR I Test flight -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *24 Oct 01 SR II TMA in ionosphere (2nd stage ignition failure) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 Dec 03 SR III TMA in ionosphere -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 Dec 04 SR IV Photometer and GPS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 Jan 06 SR V Ion Probe and 3-Axis Flux-gate Magnetometer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 Sep 07 SR VI Recovery System and Hydrazine RCS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 May 10 SR VII Study irregularities in ionosphere 16 Sep 10 HTTP 1 Hybrid rocket test flight -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * 3 Sep 11 HTTP 2alpha Launch aborted -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 Jun 13 SR VIII Ionosphere 7 Sep 13 HTTP 2beta Test Flight -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 Mar 14 HTTP 3S Test Flight (10 km) 26 Mar 14 SR IX Ionosphere 7 Oct 14 SR X Dynamic measurement of atmospheric heat layer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 Aug 20 HTTP 3AT Second stage tethered hover test -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 Jul 22 HTTP-3A S2 Second stage test flight -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 Jan 24 HTTP 4 Tethered hover test 24 SSTO Test Flight (1 km) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25 SSTT Test Flight (3 km) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *18 Aug 26 NCSIST SLV Test Flight 21 Aug 26 Maraho Test Flight (8.1 km) 24 Aug 26 SST3 Test Flight (8.3 km) 24 Aug 26 FARCX 1 Test Flight (532 m) 28 TSLV F1 ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o Orbital * Launch Failure # Change since beginning of month NCSIST National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology RCS Reaction Control System SLV Satellite Launch Vehicle SR Sounding Rocket TMA Tri Methyl Aluminum TSLV Taiwan Satellite Launch Vehicle