South Korea plans to build a base on the moon
China and India and Japan is not the only countries on the Asian continent looking to establish themselves in the emerging space economy. South Korea also wants to be in the space race, and even plan to be outside the Earth’s orbit, with ambitions to create its lunar base within 20 years.
At a general meeting held at the National Research Corporation in Korea on July 17, the South Korean Aviation Administration (KASA) issued a road map that proposes “five basic missions, including low orbit, minor gravity exploration, moon exploration, solar and space scientific missions, The Corean Times Have I mentioned.
He was a casserole Really suggest A robotic land on the surface of the moon by 2032, but the new main plan is more ambitious, including developing a new moon floor by 2040, as well as building an economic base of the moon by 2045.
The Republic of Korea does not start from scratch in the field of lunar exploration. In mid -2012, the country was launched DanoriThe first moon probe, on the Spacex Falcon 9. It also aims to test the space technology that Kasa will use in future tasks.
This task was part of the first stage of the Korean Moon Exploration Program. The second stage includes the launch in the year 2032 of the aforementioned robotic unit, in addition to the end of the moon and a weight weighing 20 kilograms. This second stage will not depend on a SpaceX missile or even a pillow on American soil; Instead, the task will be launched using the country’s KSLV-II missile in the country, which is still under development, from the Narou Space Center, located on the southern coast of the Republic of Korea.
The Korea Institute of Geological Sciences and Mineral Resources helps in preparations by spreading the initial model of calm in abandoned charcoal mines to assess technologies that can be used in the upcoming space mining tasks.
My Cassa is your NASA
Kasa was only created in May 2024, by the South Korean government, as a local version of NASA. It is now supervised by the Korea Institute for Space Research (KARI), which has dealt with the country’s air space techniques since its foundation in 1989. Curry and the National Space Research Organization in the Republic, the Korean Astronomy and Space Science Institute, are now in Casa. Through its new private agency and the support of the private sector, South Korea seeks to place itself among the five best countries in the field of space exploration.
Kasa also imagines a unit landing on Mars in 2045, as well as developing investigations to monitor solar activity and improving the security of space, including, by 2035, the spread of a satellite to monitor solar energy in L4 Ladget Point (which is a stable position in space where small things are kept by gravity from the sun and the earth).
South Korea, of course, is not the only country that is looking to build the base of the moon by the middle of this century or to develop an infrastructure for the space economy. Through the Artemis program, NASA intends to create the moon base over the next decade – if political conflicts do not hinder this project.
China, in cooperation with Russia and other countries, has set a goal in building a moon base by 2045. India also has its eyes on the moon, with plans for its own base on the surface by 2047.
This story was originally appeared on Wireless En español It was translated from Spanish.