KAIST Student Team Develops Nuriho Second Micro-Satellite Deployment

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Jung-yoon] On the 1st, the second CubeSat (miniature satellite) was deployed from the performance verification satellite launched into orbit aboard the Korean launch vehicle Nuriho.

According to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), the CubeSat RANDEV was deployed around 4:38 PM that day.

This CubeSat, developed by a student team led by Professor Bang Hyo-chung of KAIST's Department of Aerospace Engineering, is tasked with observing the Earth using a hyperspectral camera. Officials stated that although they have not yet received footage from the performance verification satellite at the time of deployment to confirm, the satellite separation itself appears to have been successful. The student team plans to attempt communication with the satellite around 3 AM on the 2nd.

Among the four CubeSats housed in the performance verification satellite, the CubeSat 'STEP Cube Lab-Ⅱ' developed by the student team from Chosun University was first deployed around 4:50 PM on the 29th of last month, but normal communication had not been established by noon that day.