SEOUL/PYEONGTAEK, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean military has retrieved a sunken part of an ill-fated North Korean space rocket from the Yellow Sea, officials said Friday, capping a weekslong salvage operation hamstrung by poor underwater visibility, fast currents and other obstacles. It raised the wreckage, presumed to be part of the rocket’s [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Recent satellite imagery shows the arrival of tanker trucks at the launch pad of North Korea’s rocket site in an indication that the communist nation is forging ahead with a planned rocket launch, a North Korea-monitoring website said Friday. The imagery taken of the North’s Sohae or Dongchang-ri site [...]
GOHEUNG, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea is on course to test launch its next-generation space rocket in late 2016 after it made headway in resolving a major technical obstacle that could have led to delays, the head of the country’s aerospace research institute said Sunday. In a meeting with reporters at the Naro Space [...]