Taiwan’s effort to build its own low Earth orbit (LEO) communication satellites has turned out to be harder than expected, as the country’s electronics industry has long been geared toward making satellite ground equipment. Since 2019, the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) has entered the third phase of the National Space Technology Long-Term Development program which is expected to last a decade. Alongside fostering the domestic design and production capability of six high-resolution optical remote sensing satellites, a key part of the program is to develop Taiwan’s industrial capability to build Beyond 5G (B5G) communication satellites akin to Starlink.