Taiwan plans to launch four satellites into low Earth orbit by 2029 instead of six.
Credit: Taiwan Space Agency
As it turns out, building a satellite communications network from the ground up without SpaceX’s Starlink is a heavy lift—even for an advanced manufacturing powerhouse like Taiwan. Since a public fallout in late 2023 with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, during which he drew the ire of the Taiwanese government...
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