SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s first indigenous military spy satellite launched in December has passed a combat suitability evaluation, the state arms procurement agency said Wednesday, in a feat bolstering the country’s space reconnaissance capabilities against North Korean threats. Following its launch from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California last year, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Aerospace Industries Co. (KAI) said Friday it has signed a deal with U.S. space firm SpaceX to launch South Korea’s next-generation midsized satellite No. 2 in 2025. It marks KAI’s second deal with SpaceX following a similar arrangement for the launch of the next-generation midsized satellite No. 4 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called on the air force to enhance its combat posture to immediately respond to military threats by enemies, Pyongyang’s state media reported Friday. Kim made the remark during a visit to the Air Force Command on Thursday on the occasion of the Day [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Systems Co., the defense and ICT unit of South Korea’s Hanwha Group, said Wednesday it plans to launch a small synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite within the year. The company said it plans to deploy the self-developed SAR satellite into space over the southern waters of Jeju Island [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine arrived in South Korea on Wednesday, one day after North Korea’s latest launch of a military spy satellite. The USS Santa Fe (SSN-763), a Los Angeles-class submarine, entered the Jeju Naval Base on the southern resort island in the morning, the South Korean Navy said, [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Groundbreaking technology leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) has been developed to analyze satellite images to estimate economic indicators in impoverished nations, including North Korea. This innovation is poised to play a crucial role in monitoring countries with limited access to basic statistical data. On Tuesday, KAIST announced the successful development of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is considering partially suspending a 2018 inter-Korean military agreement as a precautionary measure against North Korean provocations in case it makes a third attempt to launch a spy satellite, sources said Tuesday. The Comprehensive Military Agreement calls for setting up buffer zones and no-fly zones near the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the National Geographic Information Institute on Monday unveiled high-precision satellite images and the process of making high-precision maps. Drones play an important role in land surveying. The introduction of exclusive drones mounted with high-resolution cameras has contributed to improving both precision [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has decided to cancel plans to launch satellites using Russian rockets later this year amid the international community’s sanctions on Russia’s space program over the Ukrainian war, a government document showed Wednesday. The government had planned to launch the Korea Multipurpose Satellite 6, known as the Arirang [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea successfully launched a precision aviation satellite Thursday to improve the accuracy and reliability of global positioning system (GPS) signals and better ensure flight safety, the government said. The satellite for the Korea Augmentation Satellite System (KASS), the country’s first precision GPS location augmentation system, lifted off from [...]