Although the third space program might be conducive for “technology demonstration,” its scientific missions are not clear, he said, adding that engineers appear to outnumber scientists in the organization. Keep comments relevant to the article. The idea of space exploration is more appealing to young people and would help the organization recruit new talent, he said, but added that the plan’s technical thresholds would be far more demanding than satellite development. The first phase of Taiwan's space program involves the development of the human and technological resources required to build and maintain three satellite programs, which is expected to be completed with the launch of Formosat-3/COSMIC by the end of 2005.
Regarding the ministry’s plan to build remote sensing and SAR satellites, Gao said the institute can help manufacture them, but it needs to meet stricter standards for component testing under simulated space conditions.
NSPO headquarters and the main ground control station are in The NSPO developed several suborbital launch vehicles based on the Little has been publicly revealed about the specification of the ROC (Taiwan)'s first launch vehicle for small satellites (The first phase of Taiwan's space program involves the development of the human and technological resources required to build and maintain three satellite programs, which is expected to be completed with the launch of Formosat-3/COSMIC by the end of 2005.
However, after learning of the proposal, the US expressed “serious concerns,” the source said. The nation’s space development cannot continue with the “playful” experiments of the past 30 years, during which it launched only five satellites, Minister of Science and Technology Chen Liang-gee (陳良基) said on the sidelines of the celebrations following Formosat-7’s launch in Florida. NSPO personnel can engineer satellites weighing more than 500kg and can help other countries design, assemble and test instruments under simulated space conditions, he said. When preparing the blueprint for the nation’s third space program last year, he tried to convince an Executive Yuan review committee that the nation should launch a satellite every year over the next decade, he said. For the Chinese mainland counterpart, see It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly It is only that we have not used it to build an industry,” he said. However, the ministry also plans to enter new territories, such as lunar and outer space exploration, Chen said.
The third space program, which has been allocated a budget of NT$25.1 billion (US$805 million) from this year to 2028, focuses on developing high-resolution and ultra-high-resolution optical remote sensing satellites, as well as synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, according to the ministry’s program description in January. Since the beginning of its first space program in 1991, the nation has launched five satellites in collaboration with the US: the experimental Formosat-1 in 1999, the remote sensing satellites Formosat-2 and Formosat-5 in 2004 and 2017, and the Formosat-3 and Formosat-7 constellations for gathering weather data in 2006 and on June 25 this year.