Third launch of Nuri space rocket: details of the 8 satellites onboard
누리호 첫 손님, 8개의 실용 위성 프로필과 미션 Next Wednesday, South Korea will take another significant step for its space industry, with the third launch of its homegrown space rocket Nuri. Nuri will have eight actual satellites on board, rather than dummy satellites. Let's turn to our Choi Soo-hyung for detail. South Korea's aerospace history will be rewritten on May 24th. The Nuri space rocket's 3rd launch is completely different from the two previous ones. The first and second launches in October 2021 and June 2022 were "test launches" with dummies, but this time, it's the first operational launch carrying eight actual satellites. So, which satellites will be onboard? First, the largest and heaviest main payload satellite, the NEXTSAT-2 made by KAIST, will be placed at the front of the third stage of Nuri. It has a main camera with a resolution of five meters, an observation width of 40 kilometers, and weighs one-hundred-50 kilograms to help it explore 6-hundred to 8-hundred kilometers of mission altitude ranges. It uses an imaging radar that is not affected by light or clouds, day and night, or even severe weather conditions. "NEXTSAT-2 is primarily a satellite that captures radar images. It is a synthetic satellite that sends radar waves and detects the return waves to create composite images. It differs from the optical camera images and has differences in performance compared to the existing Arirang-5 satellite due to its scale." Four Doyosat named after small but fast birds, developed by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, will also be onboard. It is also known as SNIPE ---Small scale Magnetospheric and Ionospheric Plasma Experiment---the world's very first, where four satellites fly in formation to observe space weather. Four nanosatellites ---Garam, Narae, Dasol, and Laon ---about 10 kilograms each, will provide real-time transmission of fine space plasma distribution, Earth's magnetic field, solar wind, and space storms at a mission altitude of 5-hundred kilometers. In this 3rd launch, the achievements of Korean satellite manufacturing companies are noticeable. The space radiation detector by "Lumir", the optical payload by "JUSTEK", and the polarimetric camera by "KAIROSPACE" will perform their respective missions. In particular, KAIROSPACE's cube satellites will come back to Earth automatically without space debris after the mission is complete. These eight satellites will be a milestone for Korea as a space powerhouse, venturing into space with the country's cutting-edge technology. Choi Soo-hyung, Arirang News. #Nuri #NaroSpaceCenter #KoreaAerospaceResearchInstitute #spacerocket #space_industry #누리호 #나로우주센터 #Arirang_News #아리랑뉴스 📣 Facebook : / arirangtvnews 📣 Twitter : / arirangtvnews 📣 Homep age : https://v2.arirang.com/ 📣 News Center(YouTube) : / newscenter_arirangtv 2023-05-19, 09:00 (KST)
