SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unmanned lunar orbiter Danuri has released a comprehensive photographic map of the moon to mark the one-year anniversary of its mission, the science ministry said Tuesday. The mosaic map, compiled from polarized camera views captured over the past 250 days, encompasses both the front and back of [...]
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, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first lunar orbiter Danuri started entering the orbit of the moon Saturday, 135 days after its launch, the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) said. The unmanned space vehicle carried out its first lunar orbit insertion (LOI) maneuver at 2:45 a.m., KARI said, as part of five rounds [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unmanned space vehicle Danuri has successfully undergone a trajectory correction maneuver (TCM), a critical procedure in the lunar orbiter’s travel to the moon for the country’s first lunar mission. Danuri, also known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, was launched last month aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Monday it has named its first lunar orbiter scheduled to be launched in August Danuri. Danuri — a portmanteau of the Korean words for moon and enjoy — was chosen from a national naming contest held from Jan. 26 to Feb. 28. It was suggested by [...]