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Taiwan takes baby steps to build its own satellite network amid risk of war
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People participate in an annual air-raid exercise, where residents are ordered to stay indoors for 30 minutes, in Taipei, on July 23, 2024.
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TAIPEI – When parts of eastern Taiwan were knocked offline in April following a 7.4-magnitude earthquake that damaged telecommunication base stations, satellite communications came to the rescue.
Within days, the Tianxiang area in Taroko National Park – where dozens of people were stranded after tremors cut off roads to the mountainous terrain – was back online, thanks to satellite terminals airlifted into the region.
