SEOUL, Mar. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is seeking to team up with the United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to pin down the sources of Korea’s high fine dust air pollution levels, a government agency said Sunday. The National Institute of Environmental Research, a research body under the Ministry of Environment, [...]
RENSSELAER, N.Y., Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Taconic Biosciences, a global leader in providing genetically engineered rodent model solutions, announces the completion of a recent mission to the International Space Station. This project represents a collaboration between the International Space Station (ISS) National Lab, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Bioserve Space Technologies with support [...]
WATERLOO, Ontario, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies [NYSE: TDY] company and global leader in digital imaging, is pleased to participate in NASA’s InSight Mission to Mars by providing color CCD image sensors for both the Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) and the Instrument Context Camera. Teledyne is pleased to have partnered [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will launch its first lunar module in 2030, with plans to fund private space projects from 2026. The government will first launch a 550 kilogram lunar orbiter in collaboration with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) by 2020 as planned, and send a follow-up lunar module [...]
HUDSON, N.Y., Jun. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — When the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launches today bound for the International Space Station, they will be joined by 40 special mice, bred specifically for this mission by Taconic Biosciences, a global leader in genetically engineered mouse models and associated services. The project is a collaboration between the University [...]
MOJAVE, Calif., Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Flight Research instructor and former NASA astronaut Billy Oefelien just gave a certificate of completion to the first ever civilian professional pilot to complete upset training in supersonic flight. Oefelien says, “It is a wonderful experience to train pilots to this ultimate level of competence and prepare them to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s largest chemicals maker, will start supplying lithium-ion batteries for NASA’s spacesuits in the second half of the year, the company said Monday. The contract with NASA marked the first such deal for a Korean company, LG Chem said. LG Chem said its new battery’s [...]
SEJONG, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will send two science planes to South Korea next week to conduct an air pollution study in cooperation with the Asian country’s environment research body, government officials said Tuesday. The National Institute of Environmental Research said a DC-8 flying laboratory and [...]
WASHINGTON, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) – NASA successfully beamed a high-definition video 260 miles from the International Space Station to Earth Thursday using a new laser communications instrument. Transmission of “Hello, World!” as a video message was the first 175-megabit communication for the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS), a technology demonstration that allows NASA to [...]
WASHINGTON, March 22, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – In support of NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission – a key part of the agency’s stepping stone path to send humans to Mars – agency officials are seeking proposals for studies on advanced technology development. Through a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), released Friday, NASA hopes to solicit proposals for concept [...]