SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Innospace, a South Korean space startup, said Monday its suborbital test launch vehicle, HANBIT-TLV, has been launched. 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), or 2:52 a.m. Monday (Korean time), according to the [...]
POHANG, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a highly elastic pressure sensor by imitating the sensory organ of crocodile skin. The research team from the Pohang University of Science and Technology and the University of Ulsan said Tuesday it had developed a pressure sensor using a microdome structure and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean scientists has developed a new camera system that can create high-contrast, high-resolution images even under irregular light conditions by imitating the eyes of a cuttlefish. A cuttlefish can adjust to different light conditions by making its pupil form a W-shape. By doing so, it [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Thursday started preparations to begin building a nuclear fusion reactor after 2035 and produce electric power around 2050 in a bid to keep up with the intensifying international competition for the future clean and limitless energy, the science ministry said. A fusion reactor, which is also [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to launch its first military surveillance satellite in November under a project to deploy a total of five such satellites by the mid-2020s, the state arms procurement said Friday. In a briefing to the National Assembly’s defense committee, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) unveiled the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unmanned space vehicle Danuri has sent its first-ever photos of the surface of the moon after starting orbiting Earth’s natural satellite a month ago, the state space research center said Monday. Danuri, which entered the selenocentric orbit on Dec. 27 after 145 days of traveling from Earth, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — An innovative membrane that can convert industrial wastewater into drinking water as well as produce electricity has been developed by South Korean scientists. Researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology and Myongji University announced on Tuesday that they had developed a new membrane that can purify a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Institute of Science and Technology announced the development of new technology that can produce electrical energy by adapting itself to various vibrations generated in surrounding environments. A research team from the institute developed an energy harvester that can convert resonant frequencies for itself depending on changes in [...]
CHANGWON, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new technique for detecting prostate and pancreatic cancer by analyzing urine samples. A joint research team from the Korea Institute of Materials Science, Pohang University of Science and Technology, and Kyung Hee University announced on Wednesday that it had developed a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The third launch of Nuri, the country’s first homegrown space rocket, will be held in early May, following last year’s successful second test-firing, the state space institute said Tuesday. “A launch management team will be formed in late March, and Nuri will be fired in early May as planned,” [...]