The remote-sensing satellite was being held by customs at the Taoyuan airport earlier Wednesday. Customs officials said later that there should be no problem for the satellite to make the 11:50 p.m. flight after the missing documents were handed in. The FORMOSAT-5 is headed for California, where it will be launched into space on Aug. 25. Its development was part of efforts to build up and demonstrate Taiwan's indigenous space technology as well as to promote advanced space science research in Taiwan, the NPO said. The FORMOSAT-5 will provide two-meter panchromatic and four-meter multi-spectrum images at various processing levels; also offer state-of-the-art ionospheric space science data for geoscience research, the organization added.

Source: The China Post July 19, 2017 13:30 UTC