"Beyond Satellites" KAIST Space Research, Asteroid Mastery and Sketch

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KAIST, which has written the history of Korea's satellites starting with 'Our Star 1' in the early 1990s, opened the 'Space Research Institute'.

It plays a role in linking promising research fields in the school, such as robotics, computerization, and materials, with space research.

NASA's Asteroid Orbit Change Test A DART designer plans to stay in the country and draw a big picture together.

I'm reporter Jang A-young.

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From the first Korean Star in 1992 to BTS in April this year, a micro-cluster satellite.

KAIST's independent satellite development capability has been the basis for Korea's space development for more than 30 years, but there have been many voices calling for expanding the scope of space research.

The newly created KAIST Space Research Institute plans to cover various fields such as the development of materials and parts that can be applied to the extreme environment of space, new space drugs, and communication and security with robots.

Still, the center is a 'best' satellite, but it plans to expand into other fields by trying things that it hasn't done before.

[Han Jae-heung / Director of KAIST Space Research Institute: For example, playing L4, there may be technology in Korea that has never been done before. If the sensor needs to be developed and spread out about 5m which is very light and straight, I've never done this in a very hot place. But for example, we'll take responsibility for those technologies.]

The role model is the Institute of Atmospheric and Space Physics under the University of Colorado, where professor Daniel Scheerres will stay in Korea for three months a year to make the big picture.

He is a master scholar who led the mission Hayabusa, a Japanese asteroid probe, and the DART mission that changed its orbit by colliding a NASA spacecraft with an asteroid.

[Daniel Jay Scheerres / Vice President of KAIST Space Research Institute: I have focused on asteroid exploration, but I think other possibilities are much broader.]

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which opened this year, also expressed high expectations.

[John Lee / Director of NASA Mission: KAIST hopes to become a preemptive model that others can follow with groundbreaking new thinking and innovative research in the Korean space field.]

The Korea Space Research Institute plans to promote space waste collection technology, which aims to return to our star No. 1, by 2034, while securing "space research personnel" worth more than 400 professors and masters and doctors.

In addition, the plan is to build a Space Technology Innovation Talent Training Center right next to the satellite research institute here and become the center of overseas, domestic, companies, and universities.

I'm YTN's Jang Ayoung.

Reporter for filming
: Lee Hyun-oh
Video editing: Lee Young-hoon