South Korea Prepares to Ship Lunar Orbiter to U.S. for August SpaceX Launch
Here is another example of South Korea’s growing space program:
Korea on Tuesday started transporting the country’s first lunar orbiter to the United States ahead of next month’s launch using a SpaceX rocket, officials said.
Korea Times
Korea plans to launch the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, also known as Danuri, aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 8:24 a.m. on Aug. 3 (Korean Time).
According to the Ministry of Science and ICT, Danuri was sent from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute in Daejeon, 160 kilometers south of Seoul, to Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, in a specially designed container.
The orbiter will be flown to Orlando International Airport and arrive at the Floridian space center Thursday. It will later undergo maintenance, assembly and other pre-launch preparations for about a month before launch.
Danuri will begin circling around the moon in December and conduct a yearlong mission to observe it using an array of instruments, including cameras and magnetometers. It will also identify potential landing sites for future lunar missions.
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Under Yoon, Korea is going into Space!!! The sky is [no longer] the limit!!
Under Yoon, Korea is going into Space!!!
Wrong.
The current Korean space program is the brainchild of Noh Moo-hyun.
It was the Noh government which started the lunar probe program with development being mostly done and completed during the Moon government.
Case in point, Yoon didn’t go down to Kosong to view the successful launch of Naro last month.
Why?
Because he knew that it was Moon’s work not his.