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 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — There is a saying that goes, “when the Korea Meteorological Administration organizes an outdoors company retreat, it rains.” An amusing dig at the national weather agency, it nonetheless encapsulates what a lot of Koreans feel about the Korea Meteorological Administration’s (KMA) predictive prowess. The feeling is negative, in case [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is all set to provide the world with high-resolution commercial satellite imagery from its new satellite, a government ministry said Monday. The Korea Multipurpose Satellite-3A (KOMSAT-3A), also known as the Arirang-3A, was put into orbit in March last year as part of South Korea’s efforts to emerge [...]
SEJONG, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries announced that a group of Korean scientists had observed part of the Nansen ice shelf breaking off. Ice shelves are vast expanses of ice floating in the ocean. They are usually 100 to 900 meters thick. The Nansen ice shelf is located 50 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The satellite North Korea launched into space earlier this week has achieved orbit, but whether it is operating normally has not been verified, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. On Sunday, the North launched a rocket carrying the Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite, but the outside world viewed it as a cover for [...]
“Kim Jong-il said that ‘There is nothing to be scared about once we develop a satellite’. He told scientists to develop a satellite no matter what. In April 1991, Kim Jong-il gave medals and television sets to scientists and engineers when he received a report that there was a breakthrough in the development. He said [...]
MCLEAN, Va., Jun. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) today announced it has completed the first satellite payload-to-bus integration on an Iridium NEXT satellite. This successful mating of the communication payload and the Aireon(SM) hosted payload to the platform is yet another critical milestone achieved in the production process, bringing the overall constellation [...]
SAN RAMON, Calif., Apr. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The migration toward and adoption of MoCA(R) 2.0 continues to gather traction among operators worldwide. As further demonstrated, certified products incorporating MoCA 2.0 technology outnumber those integrating MoCA 1.1 by a factor of more than three to one. Of the 35 device certifications since the launch of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) announced that it is going to develop and launch two medium sized 500 kg satellites with Korean technology before 2020. The purpose of this program is the expansion of the Korean space industry, and the speedy commercialization of aerospace technology in [...]