South Korea Plans to Build a Base on the Moon

China, India, and Japan is not the only country on the Asian continent that is seeking to renew itself Space Economy. South Korea Also plans to stay in the space race and even for the presence of the Earth’s orbit, including the ambition to create its own lunar base within 20 years.

১ July July July a public meeting held at the National Research Foundation in Korea, South Korea’s Airspace Administration (CASA) published a roadmap that offers “lower-earth orbital and microvity search, lunar search and five key missions with solar and space science missions, Korean Times.” ReportThe

Fail to stay Already proposed Establish a robotic lander on the lunar surface by 2022, but the development of a new lunar Lander by 2040, as well as the new master plan, including the construction of a lunar economic base by 2045, is much more ambitious.

The Korea Lunar in the Republic does not start scratch in search of the moon. In the middle of 2022, the country was launched DonationIts first lunar investigation, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets. The right reached the lunar orbit at the end of that year and is still effective, the natural resources of the moon are studying with the suit of its instruments. It is also the purpose of testing space technology that will use the CASA on a future mission.

This mission was part of the first episode of the Korean Lunar Exploration Program. The second step is to introduce the robotic module in 2032, as well as another lunar orbit and a rover weighing 20 kg. This second episode will no longer depend on any spacex rocket or even a pad on US soil; Rather, the mission will still be launched using the KSLV-third rocket in the Naro Space Center on the southern coast of Korea.

The Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources are helping in preparations by deploying prototype lunar rovers on abandoned coal mines to evaluate technologies that can be used in the coming place mining work.

My casa is your nasa

Casa was recently made by the South Korean government recently in May 2024, as the domestic version NasalThe It is now overseeing the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), which has been the development of space technology in the country since its inception in the 5th. Curry and the National Space Research Agency of the Republic, Korea Astronomy and the Space Science Institute are now sub-agitation. With its new special organization and the support of the private sector, South Korea is seeking itself in the top five countries in space exploration.

Casao also imagined the development of the probes to monitor the solar activity and improve the protection of the solar activities in 2045, as well as the development of the probes, by 2035, setting up a solar observation satellite at L 42 (a stable position in space where the sun and the earth’s epic strength).

South Korea is certainly not the only country to create a lunar base in the middle of this century or to develop the space economy infrastructure. Through Artemis Program, NASA wants to establish a lunar base in the next decade – if Political conflict Do not derail that project.

With the cooperation of China, Russia and other countries, the aim of building the lunar base has also created the goal by 20 years. India has also set up its spectacular place on the moon, and the surface has its own base by 2047.

This story was originally attended Wired In Spanish And have been translated from Spanish.