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MALAYSIA SPACETECH
MALAYSIA SPACETECH ASPIRATIONS TAKING OFF WITH SPACETECH HUB CREATION Angkasa-X Signs MoUs with E&E manufacturing companies from Penang.
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alaysia is keen on exploring and developing SpaceTech in recent years. While the government has expressed its commitment to rolling out the National Space Policy 2030, the industry is looking into reducing production costs, developing highend technology infrastructure and spurring the local industry’s capabilities. Seeing this opportunity, E&E manufacturing companies from Penang has signed MoUs with Angkasa-X, collectively as the Founding Members of the Malaysia SpaceTech Hub, to bolster crosssector cooperation in the field of space technology. Malaysia SpaceTech-Hub aims to congregate the manufacturing
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industry players that are like-minded to come together and paves multiple opportunities for other sectors of the industry to collaborate and exchange expertise. Chairman of Angkasa-X Dr Sean Seah says, “The Malaysia SpacetechHub is aimed at enhancing the
industry’s capabilities in space technology manufacturing, data research, data analytics and innovation in big data processing, boosting the growth of local industrial sector players. This formation will be the start of the satellite manufacturing and data-
