Golem Plus Artikel Tech Asia: Inside Taiwan's most ambitious space mission yet Big spending increase propels aim of homegrown satellite constellation, launch site and first rocket by 2034 25. Juli 2026 um 18:00 Uhr / Von Cheng Ting-Fang und Lauly Li, Nikkei Asia On a late winter night last December, Huang Po-Hsuan, his team and their colleagues waited anxiously in the control room at the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA), their eyes fixed on screens. They were waiting for the first image taken by the recently launched Formosat-8A satellite to be transmitted back to Earth."All of us were very nervous," Huang, director of the agency's optical payload team, said when recalling the moment to Nikkei Asia at TASA headquarters in the city of Hsinchu, in northwestern Taiwan. "The wait was extremely grueling. The satellite transmitted several times over the North Pole and South Pole ground stations, but we just couldn't download the image."
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