Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite -5

Thales Alenia Space Italy, Korea Aerospace Research Institute
August, 2013 to August, 2017

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.

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http://kompsat.kari.re.kr/english/index.asp

Instrument	Datasets
Corea SAR Instrument	0

Also known as :

• missionID 638 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission KOMPSAT-5 (ceos lexicon)
• resource Arirang-5 (dbpedia lexicon)