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), [...]
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 [...]