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- description: 'KOMPSAT-5 is part of the Korean National Development Plan of MEST (Ministry of Education, Science and Technology) which started in 2005. The project is being developed and managed by KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute). The primary mission objective is to develop, launch and operate an Earth observation (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite system to provide imagery for geographic information applications and to monitor environmental disasters.'
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/k/kompsat-5
  display_name: korea-multi-purpose-satellite-5
  end_date: 2017-08-01T00:00:00
  identifier: korea-multi-purpose-satellite-5
  name: Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite -5
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 2013-08-22T00:00:00
  type: platform
  uri: /platform/korea-multi-purpose-satellite-5
  url: http://kompsat.kari.re.kr/english/index.asp