Chinese private launch company Galactic Energy Space Technology Co. has successfully flown PALLAS-1, its medium-to-large reusable liquid-fuel rocket, marking its expansion into a dual solid- and liquid-fuel portfolio.
More than 90% of Taiwan's external communications rely on subsea cables, raising concerns over resilience and pushing policymakers and experts to call for satellite communications to be brought onshore as a backup. At a forum on July 31, the Ministry of Digital Affairs said the island's 4G and 5G networks together cover 99% of the population, but its international connectivity remains vulnerable to cable cuts.
Hard hats and fire extinguishers will certainly have their place at K-Safety Expo 2026, but visitors arriving at BEXCO in Busan from September 2–4 may find that the modern safety industry increasingly speaks the language of AI, robots, sensors and connected infrastructure.
K-Safety Expo 2026, South Korea's leading dedicated safety-industry exhibition, will open September 2 at BEXCO in Busan, bringing together companies, government agencies, research institutions and overseas buyers across disaster prevention, industrial safety, public security, fire and rescue, and transportation and maritime safety.
China's push to build computing infrastructure in orbit is moving beyond experimental projects, with several initiatives this year pointing towards a more coordinated effort to develop space-based AI and data-processing capabilities.
The Executive Yuan's proposed Special Act for Indigenous Defense Unmanned Vehicle Procurement failed to win approval in the Legislative Yuan, which instead adopted a version proposed by opposition caucuses, leaving a six-year, NT$240 billion (approx. US$7.6 billion) procurement framework facing uncertainty.
Lightel Technologies reported record first-half results for 2026, with consolidated revenue reaching NT$590 million (US$18.7 million), net profit at NT$107 million, and earnings per share of NT$4.34. The Taiwan-based optical components maker said the gains came as shipments tied to low Earth orbit satellite projects continued to scale up.
Taiwan's Legislative Yuan on August 27 passed a defense drone procurement bill, allocating a total of NT$240 billion (approx. US$7.59 billion) for six consecutive years for purchases prioritizing Taiwan-made drones.
The current aerospace landscape is increasingly marked by a push into satellite connectivity and space-based infrastructure, as SpaceX daringly edges deeper into the more intricate layers underpinning the construction of a proprietary space economy.
The recent disclosure of SpaceX's partnership with Nvidia to deploy Vera CPUs as part of the architecture behind SpaceXAI's Starmind AI satellite was an outright showcase of where the two tech giants are decisively headed in the agentic AI era, as their collaboration deepens into one huge, interconnected ecosystem of orbital compute.
Taiwan aerospace communications equipment maker Yttek said its HyperSDR satellite ground-station modem, developed at the request of the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA), successfully received and decoded high-frequency telemetry signals downlinked from the first FORMOSAT-8 satellite, FORMOSAT-8A, on April 27 this year. The system helped TASA rapidly reconstruct high-resolution optical images of Alibag, India.
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