SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to develop and launch an indigenous solid-propellant space rocket by 2024, officials said Thursday, following the successful combustion test of its engine in July. According to the defense ministry, the state-run Agency for Defense Development successfully conducted the combustion test of a solid-propellant engine for space [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Institute for Basic Science announced that it has developed an ultra-small fuel cell with greatly reduced weight and bulk. A fuel cell typically consists of end plates, a separation membrane and a membrane electrode assembly (MEA), the component that actually makes electricity. The research team proposed the idea [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) said Thursday that it developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) technology to analyze the harmfulness of video content. After searching websites on the basis of registered keywords, the new AI detects harmful content by analyzing the websites’ text and images. The AI [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) said Tuesday that it had developed new artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can search electronic documents by understanding questions in a level similar to human performance. Searching electronic documents requires examining the words contained in document titles and file names and then [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will invest around 1.6 trillion won (US$1.38 billion) over the next 10 years to expedite the development of key space technologies after the full lifting of U.S.-imposed restrictions on missile development, the arms procurement agency said Friday. Under the plan, diverse defense projects, such as the development [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study showed that the efficiency of photoelectric transformation improved by using a virus rather than a chemical compound as solar cell thin film. The National Research Foundation of Korea said Thursday that a joint research team from Sungkyunkwan University and Pusan National University succeeded in complementing the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Hancom Group, a South Korean ICT convergence company, on Thursday announced its ambitious plan to launch its first commercial satellite during the first half of next year. The nanosized satellite, named Sejong 1, is under development with Spire Global Inc., a U.S.-based space-based data provider. The satellite will collect [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) has developed an astronomical telescope that can observe ultra-low-surface-brightness (LSB) celestial objects thousands of times darker than the night sky, using home-grown technology. The research team recently installed a test model of the KASI-Deep Rolling Imaging Fast optics Telescope (K-DRIFT) at [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean scientists have succeeded in developing a 3D printing ink material using sunflower pollen. A research team led by professor Cho Nam-joon of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has found a way to use sunflower pollen to develop a 3D printing ink material. After incubating [...]
CHONAN, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) has succeeded in repairing the ‘central axis of reducer,’ a core component of naval ships, using metal 3D printing technology. The central axis of reducer plays the role of reducing the speed of a fast-rotating engine as well as controlling the torque. [...]