Government is the booster engine
Also urging Thailand to grasp opportunities was the chief of Japan’s space agency, Jaxa.
Thailand should create challenging policies, seek international partnerships and support educational institutions to drive space development forward, said Hiroshi Yamakawa.
Japan has achieved success in space development thanks to strong support from its government, which has switched the focus from security to an approach driven by science and technology, he added.
“Space will be everywhere not only when we see it on TV,” he predicted.
Space data: a great leap forward
Data-driven space technology is playing a crucial role in the new mission to forge sustainable economies, said Ronald Tong, acting director of Singapore’s space agency, OSTIn.
He gave the example of data from…
