Korea AeroSpace Administration Holds International Cooperation Workshop on Lunar Base Construction

[Financial News] The Korea AeroSpace Administration said it held an international cooperation workshop on the 13th at Jang Yeong-sil Hall of the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute to explore ways for South Korea to make a strategic contribution in step with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) construction of a “lunar base (Moon Base).”
The workshop brought together around 50 experts from a total of 18 institutions, including domestic research institutes, universities and companies, as a forum for industry-academia-research collaboration. It was organized to broadly assess domestic and international research and technological capabilities, as well as demand for complementary cooperation, amid a rapidly changing global space exploration environment, and to flesh out future national-level independent space exploration and cooperation agendas between South Korea and the United States.
At the workshop, outstanding technologies and research achievements held by South Korea’s industry, academia and research sector were shared, and practical ways to cooperate to enhance the country’s competitiveness in space exploration were discussed in depth. In particular, capabilities across a range of technological fields were thoroughly assessed, including astronomy and space science; landing and transportation; communications and navigation; power; construction and infrastructure; materials; robotics and mobility; life sciences; and the space environment.
Building on this, participants explored possibilities for complementary collaboration to overcome the limitations of individual institutions and identified new opportunities for cooperation from various perspectives. Based on these wide-ranging discussions, the Korea AeroSpace Administration plans to strengthen an integrated cooperation framework among domestic industry, academia and research institutions while fleshing out strategies for independent lunar exploration and international cooperation.
Korea AeroSpace Administration Administrator Oh Tae-seok emphasized, “This workshop is a meaningful opportunity to bring together the outstanding research and technological capabilities of South Korea’s industry, academia and research sector and explore ways to cooperate in complementary ways.” He added, “Building on the core technological capabilities we have accumulated, we will expand our domestic cooperation network overseas and further strengthen our space exploration capabilities going forward.”

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