「FORMOSAT-3/ COSMIC Workshop 2006」was held successfully by NSPO of NARL from Nov. 28 to Dec. 1. There were over 160 researchers of the universities and the research institutes from Taiwan and main users’ nations, such as United States, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, India, Australia, France, and Germany, etc., gathering in the workshop to present and to share the early results of the FORMOSAT-3 data analyses and applications. FORMOSAT-3 science data has attracted attention from the atmospheric and ionosphere researchers and application institutes worldwide. Currently, nearly 400 researchers and institutes of over 34 nations have used the near real-time science data for weather prediction, ionosphere study, and climate research. The early results have shown a significant and positive impact to the global weather data assimilation and prediction system. Meanwhile, with the growing demand of the FORMOSAT-3 / COSMIC data from the user community, NSPO and University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) signed a “Letter of Intent for the further cooperation on FORMOSAT-3 / COSMIC”on Nov. 28.