KASA Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:17:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png KASA Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 South Korea approves strategic plans for space https://spacenews.com/south-korea-approves-strategic-plans-for-space/ https://spacenews.com/south-korea-approves-strategic-plans-for-space/#respond Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:17:53 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=513660 South Korea’s KSLV-2 rocket blasts off from a seaside launchpad.

HELSINKI — South Korea has approved new space strategies, including plans for reusable launch vehicles, as it seeks to become one of the world’s top five space powers. The Korea […]

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$1,000 to LEO: South Korea’s reusable rocket plan targets SpaceX’s dominance https://spacenews.com/1000-leo-south-koreas-reusable-rocket-plan-targets-spacex-dominance/ https://spacenews.com/1000-leo-south-koreas-reusable-rocket-plan-targets-spacex-dominance/#respond Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:43:36 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=505640 Yoon Young-bin, center, administrator of the Korea Aerospace Administration (KASA), speaks during the Sept. 5 press briefing in Seoul. To his left is John Lee, KASA’s vice administrator of the mission directorates, and to his right is Roh Kyung-won, deputy administrator. Credit: KASA

SEOUL, South Korea — The chief of South Korea’s newly established space agency recently unveiled a set of ambitious mid- and long-term projects, including developing a partially reusable rocket capable […]

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South Korea’s new space agency outlines plans https://spacenews.com/south-koreas-new-space-agency-outlines-plans/ https://spacenews.com/south-koreas-new-space-agency-outlines-plans/#respond Sun, 21 Jul 2024 02:19:41 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=497399 John Lee KASA

South Korea’s new space agency, less than two months old, is laying out ambitious goals in spaceflight as part of its efforts to serve as a “control tower” for the county’s growing space presence.

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