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South Korea launches first commercial-grade satellite, as North Korea plans first spy satellite
https://www.marshallindependent.com/wire
Nuri is developed by Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Naro Space Center was completed during 2008 in southern Goheung and is operated by the state-run Korea Aerospace Research Institute.
article from 1 year ago
Space plants and K-pop on the Moon
https://lunarbusinessreview.substack.co … n-the-moon
During the mission, Danuri will test a wireless internet technology in lunar orbit. As part of the demonstration, it will stream the song “Dynamite”
U.S. President Biden promised to expand space cooperation with South Korea during his visit to the country this month. In his election manifesto, South Korea’s newly-elected President Yoon Suk-yeol pledged to make South Korea “one of seven most advanced space powers in the world by 2035,” through efforts such as the facilitation of public-to-private transfer of space technologies and broadening the country’s role in NASA’s Artemis Program.
Another space trip for another Car company
Hyundai Motor Group begins building autonomous rover designed to explore the moon
https://electrek.co/2023/04/20/hyundai- … -the-moon/
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South Korea’s KSLV-2 rocket launches seven satellites, one unaccounted for
https://spacenews.com/south-koreas-kslv … unted-for/
South Korea’s KSLV-2 rocket put seven satellites, including one equipped with synthetic aperture radar, into sun-synchronous orbit May 25, although an eighth cubesat is believed to have not deployed properly.
The primary payload was NEXTSat-2, a 180-kilogram technology demonstration satellite developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). It hosts a set of scientific payloads, including a KAIST-developed synthetic aperture radar that can produce imagery with five-meter resolution and a swath width of 40 kilometers.
South Korea was the 3rd largest world producer of bismuth, the 4th largest world producer of rhenium, and the 10th largest world producer of sulfur. During the 1970s and 1980s, South Korea became a leading producer of ships, including oil supertankers, and oil-drilling platforms. Despite the South Korean economy's high growth and structural stability, South Korea experiences damages to its credit rating in the stock market due to North Korea in times of military crises. The recurring conflict affects the financial markets of its economy. Korea's largest construction companies include Samsung C&T Corporation, which built some of the highest building's and most noteworthy skyscrapers such as three consecutively world's tallest buildings: Petronas Towers, Taipei 101, and Burj Khalifa. In 1990, South Korean manufacturers planned a shift in future production plans toward high-technology industries.
Korea-US alliance will thrive also in space: President Yoon
https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2023/ … 49791.html
'Climate crisis poses an existential threat' VP Harris says as US teams with South Korea on space projects
https://www.space.com/nasa-goddard-vice … ident-yoon
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No space missions, no telescopes like Hubble, more military.
'North Korea May Launch Spy Satellite Soon'
https://www.universetoday.com/161628/no … lite-soon/
A social media post from user called 'LH2'
A science person who is interested in a wide range of scientific fields. I mutter freely. KSP videos are being posted on Nico Nico Douga.
Japanese internet translate program
https://twitter.com/LH2NHI/status/1663168686033866758
'The sea route report, which seems to be a North Korean satellite launch, the direction of the dogleg and the drop area are completely different from the previous Galaxy 3.
It is bent quite strongly, probably to avoid Okinawa.'
Japan have been on twitter but also has its own internet social media culture outside of facebook, this user might run a 'scientific' commentary channel on Nikoniko or Nico Nico Douga it is a social media video website, the site Niconico is the 34th most-visited website in Japan there are also news, science and tv channels on 'nicovideo'
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the country’s space agency to review preparations for a military spy satellite, state media reported Wednesday.
https://twitter.com/nknewsorg/status/16 … 2175570944
The visit marks his first reported public appearance in a month.
Thanks to a tip from martyn_williams I took a look at the warning areas for the upcoming (NET May 31) North Korean recon sat launch.
Jonathan McDowell
https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1 … 6681238532
North Korea will launch its first military reconnaissance satellite in June for monitoring U.S. activities, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday, drawing criticism over its potential use of banned missile technology. Ri Pyong Chol, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the North's ruling Workers' Party, denounced ongoing joint military exercises by the U.S. and South Korea as openly showing "reckless ambition for aggression."
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci … 023-05-29/
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North Korea's first spy satellite launch ends in failure and promise to send up another
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ … ards-south
'Photos of what South Korea says are likely part of the failed North Korean space launch vehicle fired today'
https://twitter.com/joshjonsmith/status … 3608002560
N. Korea says spy satellite crashes into sea, to seek 2nd launch in near future
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High winds halt Spanish rocket launch
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S. Korea's lunar orbiter likely to operate for 2 more years
https://twitter.com/YonhapNews/status/1 … 3554934785
Nuri Rocket filmed 18km away , approx 11.2 miles
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China’s New Commercial Launch Site – Something Big is Brewing Down in Hainan
https://spaceref.com/space-commerce/chi … in-hainan/
New Zealand Releases New National Space Policy
https://spaceref.com/space-commerce/new … ce-policy/
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Selling Satellites Along a Space Silk Road
https://chinaspacemonitor.substack.com/ … ng-a-space
China's New Approach to International Space Cooperation
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Two English Companies are Cooperating to Bring a Novel Antenna Architecture To Space
https://www.universetoday.com/161920/tw … -to-space/
Technology Readiness Levels (or TRLs) are commonly used in the space industry to determine what level of development a technology has undergone. For space technologies, eventually, they get to a TRL where they have to be used in space. In some cases, that can be difficult, as getting a ride on a launch is both risky and expensive. So it’s good news for Oxford Space Systems (OSS) that they penned an agreement with Surrey Satellites Technology Ltd (SSTL) to prove one of their new technologies on an actual flight.
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South Gyeongsang governor will head to Europe to promote Korea’s space vision
https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20230614000610
South Korea's military said it had successfully retrieved a large chunk of a crashed North Korean space rocket from the sea bed after 15 days of complex salvage operations
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2 … t-wreckage
South Korea's lunar orbiter likely to operate for 2 more years
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20230607008200320
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Thailand’s Space Ambitions Illustrate Southeast Asia’s Rising Space Sector
https://spaceref.com/space-commerce/tha … ce-sector/
Construction of the Simsek-1 launch vehicle facility has begun which is developed by Turkish ROKETSAN.
A contract was signed for the construction for Micro Satellite Launch System
https://twitter.com/hermes_z/status/1638585923859357700
Micro Satellite Launch System (MUFS)
https://web.archive.org/web/20200928175 … launch.htm
Mikro Uydu Firlatma Sistemi (MUFS)
SSB and Roketsan signed a contract 05 NOvember 2018 for Micro Satellite Launch System (MUFS) Development Project. When the project is over, micro-satellites of 100 kilograms and below will be placed in the low-earth orbit with a height of at least 400 kilometers. Turkey, owned by the country of the world satellite launch, testing, will have gained the ability to produce infrastructure and bases.
Defense Industry Presidency and Roketsan signed a contract for Micro Satellite Launch System (MUFS) Development Project. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's project contract announced in the 100-day Executive Program was signed within the prescribed period. Defense Industry President of the ceremony held in the Defense Industry President. Dr. Ismail Demir, Turkish Armed Forces and Roketsan representatives attended.
Keep an eye on a launch for the Zafar-2 satellite in Iran
https://twitter.com/JasonMBrodsky/statu … 7913312257
The UTE-Ecuador 3U CubeSat was developed by the Ecuadorian Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial (UTE).
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/ute-ecuador.htm
NEE-01 Pegaso is an Ecuadorian technology demonstration satellite, and Ecuador's first satellite launched to space. Built by the Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency (EXA), it is a nanosatellite of the single-unit CubeSat class. While originally planned to be orbited by a Russian Dnepr, delays with the rocket forced EXA to move the satellite's launch to China. The satellite operated normally until 23 May 2013; at approximately 05:38 UTC, Pegaso passed very close to the spent upper stage of a 1985 Tsyklon-3 rocket over the Indian Ocean. While there was no direct collision between the satellite and upper stage, Pegaso is believed to have suffered a "glancing blow" after passing through a debris cloud around the Tsyklon stage and striking one of the small pieces
http://www.exa.ec/bp46/index-en.html
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Polish company SpaceForest launches test flight of suborbital Perun vehicle
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Germany is building a tiny rover that will roam the surface of Phobos
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Australia scraps billion-dollar satellite program
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KAI poised to repeat success with satellite exports
https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20230514000117
The consecutive successes of South Korea’s Nuri rocket and Danuri lunar orbiter opened a new space era for the country’s space road map last year. The Korean government and President Yoon Suk Yeol set out ambitious goals of landing on the moon in 2032 and on Mars in 2045, signaling the beginning of the space economy. Korea Aerospace Industries, which has played an essential role in the country’s recent space milestones, is now aiming to expand its space businesses with a focus on large satellites.
KAI’s space center, which opened in August 2020, is capable of building six 1.5-ton-satellites at once with over 500 R&D personnel working at the facility. The space center is the single largest R&D site in the country, according to the official.
KAI has completed the development of the second next-generational medium-sized satellite known as Compact Advanced Satellites 500 or CAS 500 which indicates its weight of 500 kg. The company is currently developing three more CAS 500s, which will serve different purposes including conducting space science research and collecting agricultural, territorial and water resources data for the Rural Development Administration, Korea Forest Service and the Ministry of Environment.
According to Lee, all of the four satellites are set to be launched into space before the end of 2026.
“Once the satellites are up in space by 2026, our goal is to sign an export contract within one year of the launch. Most of the countries to which KAI is exporting aircraft are hoping to utilize satellites. The need for wanting to use space assets for the sake of offering public services is growing,” he said.
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Chinese launch firm secures fresh funding for reusable rocket
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A science, rocket, communications, space exploration channel by Scott Manley
because it uses ' @ ' symbol you might have to copy and paste into certain browsers
https://odysee.com/@ScottManley:5/india's-flagship-lunar-mission:4
India's Flagship Lunar Mission Chandrayaan 3: Will it Brake or Break?
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A new frontier for space in Australia with approval granted for a permanent commercial space launch facility in Koonibba
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'KARI' Moon mission KPLO, officially named 'Danuri' launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral
https://www.kari.re.kr//kplo/multimedia
South Korean spacetech company to build offshore space rocket launch platform in Jeju (Perigee Aerospace)
https://www.ajudaily.com/view/20230509160226636
Perigee, a South Korean private space technology company, will build an offshore launch platform for space rockets or space launch vehicles in the southern resort island of Jeju. The offshore launch platform will be the first of its kind operated by a private company in South Korea.
Perigee said in a statement that the company signed a memorandum of understanding with the provincial government of Jeju on May 8 to cooperate in the development of governance designed to vitalize South Korea's private space technology sector and establish the country's first offshore launch pad.
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Australia again
Taiwan-Australia or owned by one or both? There is a company Taiwan Innovative Space Inc
or could Australia and Taiwan send satellites to the Moon.
The Australian Government has granted approvals to launch two suborbital rockets from Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex this year.
https://spaceaustralia.com/news/souther … st-rockets
ATSpace was founded in Australia in January 2021 and is the sister company to TiSPACE from Taiwan, which has previously worked with Southern Launch at the same launch site. Its rocket manufacturing facility is situated in Wingfield, South Australia, and currently, it is developing non-explosive hybrid rocket propulsion technologies that enable fast turnaround space launch services.
ATSpace, TiSPACE's sister company, was founded in January 2021 to develop the company's rocket technologies in Australia. As of August 2022, ATSpace plans to conduct future suborbital test launches at Whalers Way in place of TiSPACE
https://spaceaustralia.com/news/souther … st-rockets
"Taiwan's Hapith-I rocket (from TiSpace) was shipped to Australia in February, Australian "Southern Launch" will assist at starting preparations for launch this month.
https://twitter.com/SpaceIntel101/statu … 6248123397
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A space race on the Korean Peninsula
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/NORTHK … pxrybdlpx/
The rival space programmes of Seoul and Pyongyang have had an eventful year: on May 25, South Korea for the first time used an indigenous launch vehicle to place a mission-capable satellite in orbit, and a few days later, North Korea launched a new rocket design from a new facility.
Although the North Korean Chollima-1 rocket failed, analysts expect the country to push forward with further tests and eventually make good on its vow to place spy satellites in orbit.
South Korea is testing both solid- and liquid-fuelled launch vehicles, with lofty ambitions for 6G wireless networks, spy satellites, and even lunar probes.
Both countries’ programmes lag behind those of their neighbours Japan and China, and both have linked rockets to national pride, with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un calling space “a demonstration of the overall national power” and former South Korean President Moon Jae-in saying the first launch of the Nuri rocket in 2021 heralded the approach of a “'Korea Space Age”.
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The Former space power, a Super-Power now in decline?
Russia’s Moon Probe Failure: Why and What Next?
https://www.leonarddavid.com/russias-mo … what-next/
Russia’s revamping of Moon exploration is off to a rocky start – the plunge from lunar orbit of the country’s Luna-25 spacecraft, destroying itself as it crashed into the Moon’s bleak landscape.
Head of Russia’s Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, reports that the main cause of the Luna-25’s failed mission was an engine failure. Instead of a planned propulsive nudge of 84 seconds, the engine operated for 127 seconds, more than the “required value” in readying the probe for its descent burn. This added impulse to Russia’s Luna-25 led to it crashing into the Moon, Borisov told Rossiya 24 television.
“Russian space spending now lags far behind the U.S., China, Europe and even Japan,”
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Rocket Lab reuses engine on Electron launch
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Japan launches moon lander and X-ray space telescope on same rocket
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Korean lunar space environment payload ships to US for 2024 launch
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Kore … h_999.html
The Ministry of Science and ICT (Minister Jong-Ho Lee, hereinafter referred to as 'MSIT') and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (Director Young-Deuk Park, hereinafter referred to as 'KASI') announced the beginning of the transfer of the lunar space environment monitor, 'LUSEM'(Lunar Space Environment Monitor) that will be aboard United States' unmanned lunar lander in 2024, has began on September 4th.
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