SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. space firm SpaceX has set up a subsidiary in Seoul to launch satellite internet services using Starlink here, industry sources said Thursday. SpaceX established Starlink Korea LLC on March 8, and Lauren Ashley Dreyer, SpaceX’s senior director of Starlink business operations, has been appointed as representative, according to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — SpaceX, a U.S. space company owned by Elon Musk, has applied for business registration with South Korean authorities to roll out its network of satellite internet service Starlink, sources said Friday. SpaceX filed the request with the Ministry of Science and ICT earlier this month to launch Starlink in [...]
WASHINGTON/SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first military communications satellite was successfully launched into space Monday, Seoul’s arms procurement agency said, making the country the world’s 10th to own a communications satellite for military purposes only. The Anasis-II satellite lifted off atop a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket manufactured by U.S commercial space [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s first military communications satellite could be launched into space from the Kennedy Space Center next month, according to a U.S. news report. This project is part of the arrangement to offset South Korea’s purchase of F-35A fighter jets from Lockheed Martin. The Anasis-II satellite could lift off [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A small South Korean satellite designed to carry out space observation successfully reached its designated orbit after blasting off from an Air Force base in the United States, Seoul’s science ministry said Tuesday. The Next Sat-1, which lifted off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at around [...]