The first lunar expedition mission of the Asian country will be carried out in August of next year. The Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technologies wants place a satellite around the Moon.
Interplanetary Internet, one of the objectives
The country managed to integrate a camera provided by NASA to observe the darkest areas of our satellite in order to find useful material.
This satellite will carry with it different teams to do different experiments. The idea is to try to make it possible for data network are available throughout the solar system.
The role of Interplanetary Networks Special Interest Group wants to make a scalable and functional communication system between planets. It will be tried that the public interest in this project since it is necessary to create an interplanetary Internet network. To achieve this, we will collaborate with the different entities that research and develop these types of technologies.
You will also have other tools to help you measure magnetosphere of the Moon, to capture snapshots of her and try trace materials from the lunar surface.
To make all of this real, South Korea will collaborate with Elon Musk’s private space company, Spacex. Musk’s company has plenty of experience launching these probes into space. In fact, Starlink satellites can be seen from Earth.
South Korea could do space missions in the future
We will have to wait until august next year for SpaceX to launch the satellite. After takeoff, this it will take three months to reach the orbit of the Moon before settling in to spend a year working.
This will be the first mission of this style for the Asian country, but before making it take off, South Korea hopes to have achieved its own satellite launch capability with one of his new vehicles called Nuri.
Nuri is 47 meters tall and can carry up to ton and a half payload to orbits of between 600 and 800 kilometers. Several tests have been carried out with the vehicle and it is planned that in October of this same year take your first trip to space.
In the event that these North Korean space missions are successful, the nation could keep up with the trend like other countries and collaborate in carrying out different missions to be done in the future.