台灣本土火箭 要讓太空旅行夢想成真 | 吳宗信 Jong-Shinn Wu | TEDxTaipei

由於科技的發展，製造一架火箭的成本和難度已經比太空競賽（The Space Race）時期低了非常多！在台灣，一個由數所大學組成的團隊，正努力要讓台灣成為太空國家之一。他們從混合燃料引擎技術上著手，希望能夠製造出以前無法實現的低成本小型火箭載具，並希望這個技術之後能應用在太空旅遊和發射小型衛星上。在下一個太空時代搶佔先機。

Advanced Rocket Research Center (ARRC; 國立交通大學前瞻火箭研究中心) is a Taiwanese space transport research organization with a specialty focus in hybrid rockets headquartered at National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu City, Taiwan. Founded in April 2012, ARRC has since garnered wide support from both public and private sectors, as the project managed to obtain research grants and individual donations from crowdsourcing platforms.

On March 24th, 2015, ARRC successfully test launched their HTTP-3S rocket, thereby announcing their goal in making Taiwan become self-sufficient in satellite launches. The director of the project, Professor Wu Chongsin, believes that with passion and determination, reaching outerspace from Taiwan will no longer be a far-fetched goal.

國立交通大學前瞻火箭研究中心（Advanced Rocket Research Center，縮寫為ARRC）是私人與企業捐款於2012年在國立交通大學成立的探空火箭研究學術機構，成立宗旨意在促進台灣太空科技的發展。目標發展由台灣自主研發、製造的運載火箭，並達成運送衛星上軌道的能力。

ARRC的出現點燃了台灣科研單位與社會大眾對太空的想像。在2014年3月24日ARRC團隊成功試射HTTP-3S火箭，同時宣示要讓台灣擁有自主發射衛星的能力。

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