The Future Tech exposition on its first day yesterday highlighted space technology, digital transformation and other trends with US, Czech and Lithuanian representatives scheduled to give speeches at today’s event in Taipei.
As part of the Taiwan Innotech Expo, Future Tech’s in-person events are held at the Taipei World Trade Center until tomorrow, while online events are to continue until Saturday next week.
An online forum on trends in the global space industry is to be held today, featuring several renowned experts.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is slated to talk about prospects of crewed space missions in the next decade, while Lithuanian Minister of Economy and Innovation Ausrine Armonaite, Kacific Broadband Satellites Group CEO and founder Christian Patouraux, Czech Space Alliance president Petr Bares and Zdenek Nemecek, a professor at Charles University in Prague, are also to address the forum, the expo’s organizers wrote on Facebook.
National Central University (NCU) is to showcase research results that won Future Tech Awards, including a K/Ka-band communications payload designed for low-Earth-orbit cubesats.
The payload features a software-defined radio platform that would make multimode communication experiments possible that are not limited to ready-made hardware, said Chen Yih-min (陳逸民), an associate professor in NCU’s Department of Communication Engineering.
The payload is to be installed on a cubesat developed by NCU Department of Space Science and Engineering chair Chao Chi-kuang (趙吉光), Chen said.
Chen said that this is the first time he has contributed to the space industry.
The cubesat is scheduled to be launched at the end of next year and would be the first of a cubesat series dubbed “Pearl,” which would focus on low-Earth-orbit communications, Chao said.
Meanwhile, the space science department is partnering with Japanese company Space BD to prepare for an international mission to the moon in 2023.
Loren Chang (張起維), a professor in the department, said that the mission would be an opportunity for the university to send its research instruments to space.
The joint venture is planning to equip the mission with a space radiation meter and an onboard computer, Chang said.
The Central Weather Administration (CWA) today issued a sea warning for Typhoon Fung-wong effective from 5:30pm, while local governments canceled school and work for tomorrow. A land warning is expected to be issued tomorrow morning before it is expected to make landfall on Wednesday, the agency said. Taoyuan, and well as Yilan, Hualien and Penghu counties canceled work and school for tomorrow, as well as mountainous district of Taipei and New Taipei City. For updated information on closures, please visit the Directorate-General of Personnel Administration Web site. As of 5pm today, Fung-wong was about 490km south-southwest of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), Taiwan's southernmost point.
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck Kaohsiung at 1pm today, the Central Weather Administration said. The epicenter was in Jiasian District (甲仙), 72.1km north-northeast of Kaohsiung City Hall, at a depth of 7.8km, agency data showed. There were no immediate reports of damage. The earthquake's intensity, which gauges the actual effects of a temblor, was highest in Kaohsiung and Tainan, where it measured a 4 on Taiwan's seven-tier intensity scale. It also measured a 3 in parts of Chiayi City, as well as Pingtung, Yunlin and Hualien counties, data showed.
Nearly 5 million people have signed up to receive the government’s NT$10,000 (US$322) universal cash handout since registration opened on Wednesday last week, with deposits expected to begin tomorrow, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday. After a staggered sign-up last week — based on the final digit of the applicant’s national ID or Alien Resident Certificate number — online registration is open to all eligible Taiwanese nationals, foreign permanent residents and spouses of Taiwanese nationals. Banks are expected to start issuing deposits from 6pm today, the ministry said. Those who completed registration by yesterday are expected to receive their NT$10,000 tomorrow, National Treasury
Taiwan next year plans to launch its first nationwide census on elderly people living independently to identify the estimated 700,000 seniors to strengthen community-based healthcare and long-term care services, the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) said yesterday. Minister of Health and Welfare Shih Chung-liang (石崇良) said on the sidelines of a healthcare seminar that the nation’s rapidly aging population and declining birthrate have made the issue of elderly people living alone increasingly pressing. The survey, to be jointly conducted by the MOHW and the Ministry of the Interior, aims to establish baseline data and better allocate care resources, he
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