Taiwan’s Space Startups are Creating a Global Sandbox for Low-Earth Orbit

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this episode of On Orbit, we are joined by the second of our two Startup Space 2021 entrepreneur pitch event winners,</span> <strong>TMY Technologies (TMYTek)</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Co-Founder and Vice President Ethan Lin.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">TMYTek is a millimeter-wave total solution and ground systems provider based in Taiwan. Lin and his team at TMYTek are dedicated to solving millimeter-wave challenges in the 5G era. The company incorporates phased array technology with what it calls its advanced “antenna-in-package” technology. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lin leads TMYTek’s software technology and marketing teams and helps the company raise funding. A self-described serial entrepreneur who has founded three companies over the past 13 years, he previously worked for the smartphone maker</span> <strong>HTC</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and collaborated with</span> <strong>Microsoft</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and</span> <strong>Qualcomm</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">in developing software and wireless communication. In his first job out of college, he built the world's largest infrared telescope for CFHT in Hawaii.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Orbit host Jeffrey Hill interviews Lin about his efforts in building tech for an interlinked 5G and Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) world, the company’s use of modular design for its products and why modular-based space technologies are attracting investors, and the role that Taiwan plays and could play in the future global space market. </span></p>