China, India, and Japan is not the only countries on the Asian continent that seek to settle in the economy of flexible space. South Korea also wants to be in the space race, and even plans a publication beyond the orbit of the Earth, with ambitions to create its own lunar base in the 20 years.
During a public meeting held at the National Research Foundation of Korea on July 17, the South Korean Aerospace Administration (KASA) released a roadmap which offers “five basic mission, a low orbit and an exploration of microgravity, a lunar exploration and a science of space, Missioni”, the Korean Times A report.
Kasa had Already offered Place a robotic on the lunar surface by 2032, but the new master plan is much more ambient, including the development of a new lunar by 2040, as well as the construction of a lunar economic base by 2045.
The Republic of Korea does not start from zero in the field of lunar exploration. In mid-2022, the country launched DanuriHis first lunar probe, abard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket 9. Danuri reached the lunar orbit later that year and is still active, studying the natural resources of the moon with his suite of instruments. It is also intended to test space technology that will be used by Kasa on future mission.
This mission was part of the first phase of the Korean lunar exploration program. Phase two includes the launch in 2032 of the aforementioned robotic module, as well as another lunar orbiter and a 20 -kilograms rover. This second phase will no longer count on a SpaceX rocket or even a stamp on American soil; The mission will rather be launched using the country’s KSLV-III rocket, which is still under development, the Naro Space Center, located on the southern coast of the Republic of Korea.
The Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources helps preparations by deploying the Lunar Rovers prototype in abandoned coal mines to assess the technologies that flow into the extra spaces to come.
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Kasa was only created recently, in May 2024, by the South Korean government, as a national version of NASA. He now oversees the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), which has managed the development of aerospace technologies in the country since the establishment in 1989. Kari and the national spatial research organization of the Republic, the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, are now Kasa’s sub-agents. With its new special agency and the support of the private sector, South Korea seeks to position itself among the first five countries in the field of space exploration.
Kasa also plans to land in the module on March in 2045, as well as the development of probes to monitor solar activity and improve spatial security, including, by 2035, the deployment of a solar observation satellite at the point of Lagrange L4 (a stable position in space where small objects are held in place by the place of gravitational forces of the sun and the earth).
South Korea, of course, is not the only country that seeks to build a lunar base in the middle of this century or to development of spatial development. Thanks to the Artemis program, NASA intends to establish a lunar base during the next decade – if political conflicts do not derail this project.
China, in collaboration with Russia and other countries, has also set a goal of building a lunar base by 2045
This story initially looked at Cable EN ESPAñol and was translated from Spanish.
