Korean Air Lines said on the 12th that it succeeded, with the Korea Research Institute for defense Technology planning and advancement (KRIT), in a development test of a large satellite antenna deployment system.
The technology test was conducted on the 5-meter satellite antenna deployment device at the Camtic Institute of Technology in Jeonju, North Jeolla, in November and operated perfectly according to the designed mechanism.
The developed technology is part of KRIT's defense core technology project, "deployable large satellite payload antenna deployment system," and key industry-academia-research participants, including KRIT, the Camtic Institute of Technology, Step Lab, and Korea Aerospace University, attended the test.
The technology folds a large antenna into a stowed state inside the launch vehicle to minimize the satellite's volume at launch and then deploys it to the target orbit without error, a factor seen as determining satellite performance.
Korean Air Lines confirmed in this test that the antenna deployment system resolves mechanical interference in the complex deployment structure, maintains high precision even in repeated deployments, and deploys the antenna stably.
With this test, Korean Air Lines verified the validity of its independently designed and manufactured "antenna deployment mechanism" and plans to accelerate development of the final goal, a large antenna deployment system.
A Korean Air Lines official said, "As a leading player in the domestic aerospace industry, we will continue to do our best, based on our accumulated technological capabilities, to advance national space assets and help Korea leap forward as a space power."