China, India i Japan is not the only countries on the Asian continent that wants to establish in a demanding space economy. South Korea also wants to be in a space race, and even plans to presence outside the earth orbit, with the ambitions of creating its own moon base over 20 years.
At a public meeting, which took place at the National Research Foundation of Korea on July 17, the South Korean aviation administration (cash register) published a road map proposing “Five basic missions, including exploration of low soil orbit and microgravity, lunar exploration and solar and spatial science missions.” Reported.
It failed Already proposed Placing Lander’s robot on the surface of the moon until 2032, but the up-to-date main plan is much more ambitious, including the development of the up-to-date Lunar Lander until 2040, as well as the construction of the moon economic base until 2045.
The Republic of Korea does not start from scratch in the field of moon exploration. In mid -2012, the country began DanuriHis first lunar probe, on board the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Danuri reached the moon orbit later the same year and continues to work, examining the natural resources of the moon with his instruments. It is also aimed at testing space technology, which will be used by the cash register on future missions.
This mission was part of the first phase of the Korean Moon Search Program. The second phase includes the launch in 2032 of the above -mentioned robotic module, as well as another moon orbiter and a rover weighing 20 kilograms. This second phase will no longer rely on the SpaceX rocket and even a pad on American soil; Rather, the mission will be launched using the KSLV-III rocket in a country that is still in the development of Naro Space Center, located on the southern coast of the Republic of Korea.
The Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources helps in preparation by implementing prototype bathrooms Lunar in abandoned coal mines to assess technology that can be used in upcoming space mining tasks.
My money is your NASA
The cash register was created only recently, in May 2024 by the South Korean government as the national version of NASA. Currently, Korea Aerospace Research Institute (Kari), which has developed the development of the country’s aviation technology, since its establishment in 1989, both Kari and the National Organization of Space Research of the Republic, Korean Astronomy and Space Science Institute, are currently subspecies. Thanks to the up-to-date special agency and the support of the private sector, South Korea tries to put in the five best countries in the field of space exploration.
The cash register also provides for the landing of the module on Mars in 2045, as well as the development of probes in order to monitor solar activity and improve the safety of space, including to 2035, the distribution of solar observation satellite in point L4 Lagrange (stable position in the space of space where diminutive objects are kept by the gravitational forces of the sun and earth).
South Korea is obviously not the only country that wants to build a moon base up to the middle of this age or develop space management infrastructure. Thanks to the Artemis program, NASA intends to establish a moon base over the next decade – if political conflicts do not deraise this project.
China, in cooperation with Russia and other countries, also set the purpose of building the moon base until 2045. India also has monuments on the moon, with plans for their own base on an area of up to 2047.
This story originally appeared Wired in Spanish and was translated from Spanish.