AerosoarX founder Max Lo has returned to Taiwan's drone industry with a distributed manufacturing strategy to link local suppliers with democratic allies. As global orders grow, the company plans to challenge expanding US defense firms while avoiding the excess capacity associated with large-scale factories and volatile drone demand.

Max Lo, founder of GEOSAT Aerospace & Technology, has launched AerosoarX to shift Taiwan's drone sector from standalone manufacturing toward international defense-system integration. The company is pursuing partnerships with democratic allies, supplying drones to the US and the Middle East, and preparing a Taiwan listing as it builds supply-chain resilience.

Japan is preparing to shift operations of its flagship H3 rocket from the state space agency to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), a move aimed at cutting launch costs and making the country's main launcher a more credible rival to SpaceX in the commercial market.

Elon Musk recently confirmed the possibility of a merger between SpaceX and Tesla, signaling an ambition to redefine competition in the AI era beyond individual products and technological advantages toward integration across the entire industrial value chain, encompassing semiconductors, energy, computing, communications, and autonomous systems.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved Amazon Leo’s approximately US$11.57 billion acquisition of Globalstar, giving Amazon access to about 25 MHz of mobile satellite service (MSS) spectrum, roughly 24 satellites and related infrastructure to support its push into the direct-to-device (D2D) market.

Global satellite service revenue is projected to grow 44% over the next decade, reaching US$145 billion by 2035, according to the 33rd edition of Novaspace's Satellite Connectivity and Video Market report, released in October 2026.

A US federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction ordering the federal government not to deny Defense Department contracts to companies simply because they share lobbying firms with Alibaba Group Holding.

FarEasTone Telecommunications signed a cooperation agreement with Direct-to-Device (D2D) satellite communications provider Elveo Mobile on October 27 to expand satellite-to-phone services in Taiwan. The partnership will integrate D2D capabilities with FarEasTone's existing terrestrial mobile network, supporting broader coverage, stronger communications resilience, and a future integrated space-and-ground network.

Motor manufacturer Racing Electric Instrument (REI) is expanding from propulsion systems into electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) payloads and inertial navigation for drones, targeting gaps in Taiwan's unmanned systems supply chain and supporting the development of locally controlled drone technologies.

The Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) said two 8U CubeSats developed by Tron Future Tech successfully reached orbit on October 20 aboard SpaceX's Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission, advancing Taiwan's low Earth orbit (LEO) communications technology program. T.MicroSat-3 and T.MicroSat-4 launched at 7:04 p.m. Taiwan time to a mid-inclination orbit and established initial contact with ground stations in Chile and Azerbaijan before 3 a.m. Taiwan time on October 21, with their systems operating normally and sufficient power available.

SpaceX has spent two decades proving that hardware once considered too complex, too capital-intensive, or too dependent on entrenched suppliers could sometimes be pulled in-house. Its Q3 earnings call suggests the company now wants to test that philosophy on perhaps the hardest manufacturing problem of all: advanced semiconductor production.