Tsai: Taiwan to launch satellite in September

TAIPEI: The first domestically developed weather satellite shows Taiwan’s determination to develop its space industry, President Tsai Ing-wen said, 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 services if China attacks and severs sea cables or other forms of communication.