Recently, some media reported that the "Taiwan Space Center", which was unveiled on January 6, plans to spin off a company from the existing satellite sector and is currently in preliminary negotiations with several domestic and foreign investors.
The head of the digital department of the Taiwan authorities claimed that the Taiwan authorities have seen the successful experience of "Starlink" in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and plan to promote the launch of similar low-orbit satellite services at the "Taiwan Space Center". The department has begun experiments, planning to install non-synchronous satellite receivers at 700 locations in Taiwan to guarantee so-called "wartime" network bandwidth.
Many people on the island have expressed doubts about the Taiwan version of the "Starlink" plan, and the representative views are: It takes forty or fifty satellites to build the Taiwan version of the "Starlink", and the satellite launch requires rockets, but the island's research and development and manufacturing capabilities are limited, and the flying squirrel rocket launched by the Taiwan region has also ended in failure, and the plan to build the Taiwan version of the "Starlink" is unrealistic.
Some people on the island are more worried about the possibility of collusion between government and business, suspecting that the space program is fake and the profit transmission is real. In particular, the previous Hsinchu baseball stadium incident exposed the ugliness of the collusion between officials and businesses of DPP politicians, making the people on the island wonder how much money will really be used to develop science and technology in the third phase of the Taiwan authorities' 10-year NT$25.1 billion space program?
