SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday started transporting the country’s first lunar orbiter to the United States ahead of next month’s launch using a SpaceX rocket, officials said. South Korea plans to launch the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, also known as Danuri, aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry said Monday the country’s first lunar exploration mission is on track for launch in August next year after it strengthened ties with the United States earlier this year in space exploration. South Korea aims to conduct a yearlong mission to observe the moon through an [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry unveiled Thursday its plan to observe and map the moon’s surface in 2023 in its first lunar orbiter mission. The spacecraft, set to be launched in August next year on U.S. commercial space firm SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, aims to reach lunar orbit toward the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will push back the development date of its lunar orbiter by less than two years to July 2022 and increase the size of the probe to enhance the probe’s capabilities and reflect the requests of local scientists, the science ministry said Tuesday. The delay comes amid the [...]