Satellite Research and Development in Korea

Author

Lee, In ; Lee, Joo-Jin ; Choi, Joon-Min

Author_Institution

Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon

fYear

2007

fDate

14-16 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Korea is entering the space ages to manufacture satellites and to use them for space applications. In the Space Launch Vehicle field, KSLV-I is now under development in cooperation with Russia. With Space Center in Goheung which is almost completed, Korea will be able to launch satellites with its own launch vehicles in its own land. Korea has successfully launched KOMPSAT-2 in July 2006. KOMPSAT-3 and KOMPSAT-5 are now under development and will be launched from 2009 in due oder. In this paper, Korean space development program including satellites, space center and launcher will be explained.

Keywords

aerospace instrumentation; artificial satellites; space research; Goheung; KOMPSAT-2; KOMPSAT-3; KOMPSAT-5; KSLV-I; Korea; Korean space development program; Russia; satellite manufacture; satellite research and development; space center; space launch vehicle field; Aerospace engineering; Aerospace industry; Aerospace testing; Artificial satellites; History; Research and development; Satellite broadcasting; Sensor arrays; Space technology; Space vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Recent Advances in Space Technologies, 2007. RAST '07. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1057-6

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1057-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAST.2007.4283957

Filename

4283957