The COSMIC constellation of six satellites was launched successfully from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 6:40 p.m. PDT (9:40 p.m. EDT) on Friday, April 14, 2006. Ground stations have received signals from all six satellites.
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Ground Support
FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC has contracted with Universal Space Network to provide ground support services in Kiruna,
Sweden, and North Pole, Alaska. With these two sites, each of the 6 FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC spacecraft will
be able to downlink all collected science data every orbit (approximately every 100 minutes).
The following link describes the USN ground system:
http://www.uspacenetwork.com/pages/network/ground_network_usn.htm
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