SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s homegrown space rocket successfully made its flight to put eight payload satellites into orbit Thursday, demonstrating the country’s status as one of the seven space powerhouses that developed a space launch vehicle that can carry a more than 1-ton satellite. Nuri blasted off from the Naro Space [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A research team from the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) said Thursday they have developed technology capable of converting agricultural waste, such as corn cobs, into levulinic acid. This acid serves as an intermediate material for aviation biofuel production. Levulinic acid is the final oxidized form derived from [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has discovered previously unrecorded microorganisms called archaea that possess the ability to counteract the harmful effects of ultraviolet rays and exhibit antioxidation properties. A research team from the National Institute of Biological Resources and Incheon National University on Wednesday reported the detection of 16 [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The national land satellite imagery, developed using local technology, will be utilized globally for disaster and catastrophe relief. The National Geographic Information Institute on Wednesday announced its partnership with the International Charter Space and Major Disasters during the Charter’s main conference last month. The institute is now a “satellite [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean space service startup Perigee Aerospace Inc. said Monday it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Jeju provincial government to construct and operate the country’s first offshore launch platform. Perigee has been working on the development of BW-1, a rocket that uses liquid methane as [...]
GOHEUNG, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Officials and researchers from South Korea’s state-run space institutions, universities and companies have begun last-minute preparations for a mission to put practical satellites into orbit for the first time. South Korea’s homegrown space rocket Nuri is ready to be loaded with eight payloads and its lower stages have been [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — When driving on a long underground expressway like the Gangnam Beltway in southern Seoul, many drivers see that the GPS-powered map on their smartphones or cars does not work well. As the GPS navigation system is unable to track the real-time location of the vehicle, the driver cannot get [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s unmanned space vehicle Danuri has sent photos of the moon’s far side during its mission to collect selenographic data, the science ministry said Wednesday. Danuri, which is rotating around the moon 100 kilometers above the surface, took pictures of the Tsiolkovskiy crater on March 22 and the [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea jumped into the business of establishing private space launch sites under the goal of rolling out services in 2024. However, it’s uncertain whether the goal will be met. According to industry sources, the countries currently building or planning new launch sites are Britain, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Indonesia [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Innospace, a South Korean space startup, said Tuesday its suborbital test launch vehicle, HANBIT-TLV, has made a successful flight, marking the country’s first civilian-made space rocket. The 8.4-ton thrust single stage hybrid rocket was fired from the Alcantara Space Center in northern Brazil at 2:52 p.m. Sunday (local time), [...]