Tagged: #satellite

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A white remote-sensing satellite model displayed indoors at Taiwan's national space facility

Formosat-8B is less a space PR moment than an ISR independence test

TASA says the second Formosat-8 bird ships to the US by year-end for a Q1 2027 SpaceX launch, just as Taiwan's signals office is still buying AI to mine foreign commercial satellite pictures for PLA hardware.

TaiwanDefence · 1h ago · 4 min read

A scale model of a boxy satellite with a long solar panel on a display stand

Cross-Strait

Taiwan's signals intelligence office buys AI to spot Chinese warships in satellite images

A NT$46.6 million deal lets the defence ministry's signals intelligence unit scan satellite photos for PLA ships, aircraft and missile launchers in minutes.

TaiwanDefence · 3d ago · 2 min read

A rocket climbs on a bright column of flame above a green hillside as a group of people in hard hats watch from a viewing area

Indo-Pacific

Japan studies rapid rocket launches to replace military satellites lost in a conflict

Tokyo is asking private companies for ideas on rockets that could put replacement military satellites into orbit at short notice if its own are attacked.

TaiwanDefence · 5d ago · 2 min read

Overhead satellite view of an airport apron with eight small jets parked in two columns and a line of dark vehicles in front of a terminal building.

Indo-Pacific

Satellite images show eight K-8 jets at China's new Ban Keun base in Laos

Commercial imagery taken a day after Beijing opened the China-Laos training centre shows light attack jets and support vehicles on the apron while the runway is still being built, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

TaiwanDefence · 6 Oct 2026 · 3 min read