• Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.97-100
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• 2005

The first Space-VLBI project, VSOP, started successfully with the launch of the dedicated space-VLBI satellite HALCA in 1997. The project has been in scientific operation in the 1.6 GHz and 5 GHz bands, and studies have been done mainly of the jet phenomena related to active galactic nuclei. A second generation space- VLBI project, VSOP-2, has been planned by the working group formed at ISAS/JAXA with many collaborators. The spacecraft is planned to observe in the 8, 22 and 43 GHz bands with cooled receivers for the two higher bands, and with a maximum angular resolution at 43 GHz (7 mm) of about 40 micro-arcseconds. The VSOP-2 satellite will also have the capability of the phase-reference and full polarization observations, which will produce more powerful results than those of the VSOP project. Far-future space-VLBI projects following VSOP and VSOP-2, have a large potential to achieve enough resolution and sensitivity to satisfy astronomers in future.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.44.1-44.1
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.28-35
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• 2006

Global Flood Alert System (GFAS) is an attempt to make the best use of satellite rainfall data in flood forecasting. The project of GFAS is promoted both by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport-Japan (MLIT) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), under which Infrastructure Development Institute-Japan (IDI) has been working on the development of Internet-based information system and just launched trial run of GFAS in April 2006 on International Flood Network (IFNet) website. The function of GFAS is to connect space agencies and hydrological services/river authorities in charge of flood forecasting and warning by providing global rainfall information in maps, text data e-mails and so on which is produced from binary global rainfall data downloaded from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) website. Although the effectiveness of satellite rainfall data in flood forecasting and warning has yet to be verified, satellite rainfall is expected to play an important role to strengthen existing flood forecasting systems by diversifying hydrological data source.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.27.2-27.2
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• 2008

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.297-299
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• 2012

Korea Aerospace Research Institute has been doing researches on the hypersonic propulsion system and hypersonic wind-tunnel since 2000 and started scramjet engine researches from 2005. Total 5 kinds of scramjet engine were designed and tested and two of them were hydrocarbon-fueled scramjet engine. For verifying the own characteristics of each components like the intake and combustor, several component tests were done at the KSPC of JAXA and KARI. In this paper, current scramjet engine research activities of KARI will be described.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.31-33
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• 2004

Two receiving systems were established at the Asian Center for Research on Remote Sensing (ACRoRS) to receive remote sensing data from NOAA AVHRR and Terra/Aqua MODIS sensors in October 1997 and May 2001, respectively. The data, which has been received in the research center, are very important to support and promote the remote sensing research activities for global environmental issues in Asia. Since the day of the establishment, many research and applications, which used these data, have been conducted. The data sets have been provided to researchers and users in many countries in the region to conduct research, to strengthen the research collaboration and education.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.68.1-68.1
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• 2012

CIBER 2(Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment 2)는 CIBER1의 후속과제로 진행되는 사업으로써 적외선 기기를 NASA Sounding Rocket에 탑재하여 0.5-2.1${\mu}m$ 파장대의 적외선 우주배경복사를 관측하고 실험하는 과제이다. CIBER 2는 NASA에서 공식 승인되어 진행되고 있는 사업이며, 미국의 Caltech, 한국의 KASI, 일본의 ISAS/JAXA가 국제협력으로 진행하는 과제이다. 한국의 KASI는 반사경의 광학계 및 광기계부 개발, 전자부 개발에 참여하고 있다. CIBER 2의 광학계는 카세그레인 방식으로써 주경의 직경은 300mm이다. CIBER 2는 77K로 냉각되어 적외선우주배경복사를 관측하기 때문에 특히, 열수축에 의한 영향을 고려하여 설계, 제작, 조립이 되어야 한다. 또한, 광학계 구조물이 조립되는 로켓의 내경이 400mm이기 때문에 광학계 구조물의 직경에 제한이 따른다. 본 발표에서는 KASI가 주도적으로 개발 중인 반사경 마운트와 광학계 구조물의 초기설계와 광기계 해석결과들에 대해서 논한다.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.64.2-64.2
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• 2009

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.71.3-71.3
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• 2018

Asteroids represent a significant resource for space exploration and scientific research. Various scientific missions have already performed and planned to investigate and understand the characteristics of asteroids. This talk introduces many space missions to asteroids. Representing missions to asteroids are the NASA's NEAR, Deep Space-1, Dawn, OSIRIS-Rex, SCOUT, DART, and ESA's Rosetta, and JAXA's Hayabusa 1 and 2, and DESTINY+ missions, and others. Although it is a very rare event, the possibility of Earth-crossing asteroids (ECAs) colliding with the Earth can never also be ignored. Numerous mitigation concepts also have been proposed to deflect ECAs in preparing for the disasters which might occur in future days. In the early studies for mitigation schemes, most of analyses were centered on to deflect ECAs with impacting the energy to the object to change its orbit. This talk also introduces many methods to deflect the orbit of ECAs, and shows spacecraft trajectories to asteroids.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.48.2-48.2
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• 2008