Taiwan flags space ambition with domestically developed weather satellite

[1/4] Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen makes a speech at the shipment ceremony of Triton, Taiwan’s first locally built weather satellite in Hsinchu, Taiwan July 14, 2023. REUTERS/Ann Wang HSINCHU, Taiwan, July 14 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s first domestically developed weather satellite shows its determination to develop its space industry, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday, lauding the programme as a step to take the island to the stars. While Taiwan has since the 1990s had a satellite programme, called FORMOSAT, tension with China has given the government extra impetus, with plans to use satellites in medium- and low-earth orbit for internet…