{"id":64045,"date":"2018-09-21T21:34:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-to-launch-kompsat-7-for-korea\/"},"modified":"2018-09-21T21:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:34:01","slug":"arianespace-to-launch-kompsat-7-for-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-to-launch-kompsat-7-for-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace to Launch Kompsat-7 for Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arianespace<\/strong> has been selected by the <strong>Korea Aerospace Research Institute<\/strong> (KARI) to launch Kompsat-7. Arianespace Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Stephane Isra\u00ebl and KARI President Lim Cheol-Ho signed the Kompsat-7 launch contract today.<\/p>\n<p>Using a Vega C launcher, the mission will be conducted from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, from December 2021.&nbsp;Developed by KARI at its facility in Daejeon, South Korea, Kompsat-7 will weigh approximately 2,000 kilograms at launch, and will be placed in a Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO).&nbsp;Kompsat-7. is the follow-up model of Kompsat-3A whose mission is to provide high-resolution satellite images to satisfy South-Korea\u2019s governmental and institutional needs.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly 30 years now, Arianespace and Korea\u2019s satellite technology research centers have developed a sound relationship, with the launch of both scientific microsatellites (Kitsat A&amp;B) and the multi-mission Coms satellite. Following the upcoming launches of GEO-Kompsat-2A &amp; 2B, the Kompsat-7 will be the fourth KARI satellite, as well as the ninth Korean satellite, to be orbited by Arianespace to date.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace has been selected by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to launch Kompsat-7. Arianespace Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Stephane Isra\u00ebl and KARI President Lim Cheol-Ho signed the Kompsat-7 launch contract today. Using a Vega C launcher, the mission will be conducted from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, from December 2021.&nbsp;Developed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}