Business profile
National Central University (NCU) is Taiwan’s foremost institution specialising in space science and engineering, having been established in 1962 following Taiwan’s participation in the 1957/1958 International Geophysical Year. NCU established Taiwan’s first Department of Space Science and Engineering in 2020, and is home to interdisciplinary research centers specialising in space technology and satellite remote sensing. Taiwan’s first university space centre, the Center for Astronautical Physics and Engineering (CAPE), was established at NCU in 2019 to form a unifying umbrella for interdisciplinary space technology development projects. NCU has an active small satellite and payload development program in collaboration with government agencies and private industry for capacity building, science, and technology development with 10 smallsats launched or in development, as well as Taiwan’s first lunar science payload. NCU continues to work to build Taiwan’s new generation of space science and technology experts to support the nation’s growing space sector.