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Korea to the Moon |
 Oct 24 2009, 07:44 AM
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The 23 October issue of the French magazine "Air et Cosmos" has a nice 5-pages article on South Korean space (plus a one-page update on ExoMars).
It also includes mentions of South Korean unmanned moon flights. An orbiter could be flown in 2020 and a lander in 2025. At the latest IAC congress in Daejeon the president of the KARI space agency Joo-Jin Lee presented the plan. Using an SKM solid fuel upper stage the KSLV-II launcher could inject 550 kg toward the Moon. The use of 2 KSLV-IIs, one for a orbiter, the second for a lander, could also provide for a low-cost sample return mission. In any case, any lunar exploration program still has to be approved by the Korean government. I can't stop wondering what the North could be up to if the South really launched a lunar mission (provided of course it will still exist by the 2020s...) -------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Oct 24 2009, 09:49 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1146 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
Speaking of which http://www.reportshop.co.kr/kstudy/11111/D11110605.html
-------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Feb 5 2013, 11:54 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1146 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
without going into the politics of it, it now seems like South Korea is not the only Korea studying a lunar mission:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php...8901#msg1008901 -------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Feb 8 2013, 05:01 PM
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That plan you linked do fit with some facts that are known, which is that DPRK are hard at work to construct a larger launcher with the claimed capability to send satellites to geostationary orbit.
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