KT SAT announced Wednesday that it will participate in Korea's K-RadCube project, which will be launched alongside NASA's Artemis II crewed lunar exploration mission.
Artemis II is a mission in which the Orion spacecraft carrying four astronauts will orbit the Moon and return to Earth. Korea is participating as an international partner in this mission, with its domestically developed CubeSat "K-RadCube" being loaded and launched together with the mission. The CubeSat will conduct scientific missions to collect space data in the high-Earth orbit environment. It will be the first domestically developed satellite to pass through the Van Allen radiation belts, a region of intense radiation, to directly measure cosmic radiation and collect foundational data for analyzing the effects of radiation on astronauts and space-grade semiconductor devices and components.
KT SAT will be responsible for integrated control and operations encompassing satellite command and ground station operations for K-RadCube, ensuring stable acquisition of space data. The company said it has established an integrated operation system and linked a total of five ground stations across the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America to increase the success rate of this mission, which is considered highly challenging. KT SAT also plans to mobilize its full satellite expertise, including developing dedicated software for space data analysis.
