Live launch coverage of Taiwan-Japan satellite to broadcast at NCKU on December 20
Tainan, Taiwan, December 19, 2016
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, and Academia Sinica jointly cooperated with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to develop Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace (ERG) satellite mission. NCKU announced today that the satellite will be launched on December 20 at the Uchinoura Space Center (USC), Japan.
The mission of ERG is scheduled to be launched sometime between 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on December 20 at the Uchinoura Space Center (USC), Japan.
JAXA will provide a live broadcast of the ERG launch live report from USC and the research team in NCKU invites people who are interested in the launching to come join watch it through the Internet. There will be a party held by the Institute of Space and Plasma Sciences in NCKU.
According to Dr. Tzu-Fang Chang from the Institute of Space and Plasma Sciences, for the first time, Taiwan is competent to take charge of an advanced space instrument for participation in a JAXA-led magnetospheric mission－ERG mission.
Through years of efforts, Taiwan has successfully delivered the Low-Energy Particle Sensor for Electron (LEP-e) for deployment on the ERG satellite, she said.
Dr. Chang explained, the LEP-e instrument is an analyzer which enables the ERG satellite to observe the energy distribution and density of low energy electrons surrounding the Earth.
The primary task of the Taiwanese ERG team is to design and develop the LEP-e instrument hardware and perform data pipeline processing, according to Chang.
For the Taiwan-Japan collaboration on the ERG project, Dr. Chang had visited Japan ISAS/ JAXA and Tsukuba Space Center/JAXA to participate in environmental tests for the LEP-e instrument.
The LEP-e is one of the nine instruments to be onboard the ERG satellite. Every instrument is essential for the scientific goals of the ERG mission, she added.
For more details, please visit http://erg.ncku.edu.tw
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National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, and Academia Sinica jointly cooperated with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to develop Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace (ERG) satellite mission. NCKU announced today that the satellite will be launched on December 20 at the Uchinoura Space Center (USC), Japan.
The mission of ERG is scheduled to be launched sometime between 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on December 20 at the Uchinoura Space Center (USC), Japan.
JAXA will provide a live broadcast of the ERG launch live report from USC and the research team in NCKU invites people who are interested in the launching to come join watch it through the Internet. There will be a party held by the Institute of Space and Plasma Sciences in NCKU.
According to Dr. Tzu-Fang Chang from the Institute of Space and Plasma Sciences, for the first time, Taiwan is competent to take charge of an advanced space instrument for participation in a JAXA-led magnetospheric mission－ERG mission.
Through years of efforts, Taiwan has successfully delivered the Low-Energy Particle Sensor for Electron (LEP-e) for deployment on the ERG satellite, she said.
Dr. Chang explained, the LEP-e instrument is an analyzer which enables the ERG satellite to observe the energy distribution and density of low energy electrons surrounding the Earth.
The primary task of the Taiwanese ERG team is to design and develop the LEP-e instrument hardware and perform data pipeline processing, according to Chang.
For the Taiwan-Japan collaboration on the ERG project, Dr. Chang had visited Japan ISAS/ JAXA and Tsukuba Space Center/JAXA to participate in environmental tests for the LEP-e instrument.
The LEP-e is one of the nine instruments to be onboard the ERG satellite. Every instrument is essential for the scientific goals of the ERG mission, she added.
For more details, please visit http://erg.ncku.edu.tw
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