What Happened
Private Sector Developer Partners With KASI On National Space Situational Awareness
Hanwha Systems has signed a contract with the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute to join Korea’s national space debris tracking system as the private-sector developer. The company will build a space-based surveillance satellite and a ground-based data system to detect and predict collisions among objects in orbit. The system is part of the Korean Space Situational Awareness system, a project under the Korea AeroSpace Administration. This development was reported by The Korea Times.