Taiwan and Poland are increasing collaboration in space and beyond with an agreement to develop propulsion and satellite technology. TaiwanPlus speaks to Marcin Jaskula, senior adviser at the Taiwan-Poland Chamber of Commerce, to learn more.
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00:00Can you tell us a little bit more about this Memorandum of Understanding or MOU between Taiwan
00:05and Poland's space sector? So the MOU between the Taiwanese space agency TASA and the Polish
00:14space agency POSA lays the ground for fostering both countries' relationship in the space sector.
00:24It gives us and our companies a platform for engagement with very clearly predefined
00:33sectors and pillars of this cooperation, which is the space propulsion technologies
00:38for space launchers and satellites, the space situational awareness and also the
00:45earth observation technologies and downstream services. These are the three pillars that
00:52Taiwanese space agency has identified as core subjects for cooperation and
01:00Polish space agency has answered to them and this is what we're going to be pursuing and
01:07developing next year. With propulsion systems come rockets and rocket launches. Taiwan currently does
01:15not have capabilities to launch rockets domestically. Is this something that TASA
01:21is hoping to provide in the next coming years? Poland and Taiwan are in the similar
01:28space at the moment when it comes to rocket technologies. They both do suborbital rockets.
01:38However, in Poland at the moment we have reached a milestone recently with sending
01:45one of our suborbital rockets to 100 kilometers using nitrogen peroxide as a propellant. So this
01:54is something that TASA is looking at currently and we feel like next year might be the year of
02:01first tests being conducted here in Taiwan. Zooming out, how would you describe the state
02:06of Polish and Taiwanese relations right now? All-time high by far. We see a very,
02:14very good engagement between our nations. Lin Jia-Rong, the foreign minister's recent visit
02:22to Poland is definitely a highlight of this growing and tightening relationship.
02:30Taiwan has been a great contributor of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Obviously they have to
02:36deliver this humanitarian aid first to Poland so then Polish authorities can send them to Ukraine
02:43because there's simply no other way of doing this at the moment. Taiwan was also a very, very
02:52good donor of cash donations to Ukrainian cities and hospitals.