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2024.02.15 05:58 Taipei time
In October 2023, President Tsai Ing-wen attended the “Taiwan Annual International Space Conference (TASTI)” and announced that she would increase her investment by 40 billion to form Taiwan’s national space team and invest in the development of low-orbit satellites; then, Hon Hai teamed up with Space X to launch The Pearl a low orbit satellite as if to echo government policy and take advantage of global space business opportunities.
According to the investigation of this magazine, CubeSats have the advantages of low cost, easy design, construction, and standardization, breaking the original monopoly of the satellite industry by the state or a few players. With the support of Space X, satellite launch costs have been reduced’ n significant, creating a new space era It has already begun, and Taiwanese manufacturers, including Hon Hai and Intelligent Space are all working hard on it.
Early in the morning on November 12, 2023, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off and released a large amount of white smoke. Unlike in the past, Taiwanese people could only watch the Falcon 9 take off with a spectator mentality. on it. This time, two Pearl satellites developed by Hon Hai also flew into space with Falcon 9, connecting Taiwan with SpaceX.
Honorable Hai has been working quietly for two years and has successfully sent an 8.8kg, 6U CubeSat into space. Zhao Yuanhan, senior director of Policy Development of Hon Hai B5G (Beyond 5G), pointed out at the “Hon Hai Technology Day” that the space industry has been developing for 30 to 50 years and has made great progress in satellite TV, broadcasting, and national defense However, it has been closed for a long time. The ICT industry operates at a fast pace.
However, with the arrival of Space X, the space industry has begun to show a new face. Zhao Yuanhan pointed out that “SpaceX launched the Starlink service. In just a few years, the number of satellites it launched has exceeded the cumulative number of satellites in the past 2 or 30 years. It has decreased” n considerable the cost of orbiting satellite launches, from about 20,000 to 30,000 US dollars per kilogram unit cost USD 2,000 ~ 3,000.
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“This (space) industry is developing rapidly. When the demand starts to increase, the supply is too late to keep up. Hon Hai has the advantage of vertical integration. Drawing on its strategy in the field of electric vehicles, it also hopes to use open specifications and open specifications for the space industry The reference design method allows all costs to be quickly reduced, and we are deeply involved in various aspects of satellites, including key components, substrates, sub-systems, and the entire satellite, while simultaneously entering the development. of the satellite industry in the air and underground,” he said Zhao Yuanhan.
This Pearl launch can be said to be a stepping stone for Hon Hai to enter low orbit satellites. Wu Renming, director of the Hon Hai New Generation Communications Research Institute, pointed out that the 6U cube satellite launched this time is still in the proof-of-concept (PoC) stage, and its main tasks are to gain space experience, measure the operating parameters of electronic equipment in the space environment, and typical measurement Wireless channel and millimeter wave broadband communication.
According to information from National Taiwan University Science and Education Development Center, CubeSats are artificial satellites that are small in size, light in weight, low in cost, and have stable specifications. This is the entry level model for those interested in satellite development around the world. Perhaps because the threshold is low and not only large companies can afford it, it has attracted Taiwanese manufacturers such as Hon Hai to rush in, and even new entrepreneurs Zhitan Space have also followed suit.
Update time ｜2024.02.15 05:59 Taipei Time
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