• Journal of Space Technology and Applications
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.121-130
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• 2021

Since the 1960s, the United States has developed and implemented policies to encourage commercial space launches. Specifically, national policies have been implementing to expand the role of commercial space actors, which required establishing a process for private space launches. In the early days of the space age, private launches accounted for a small portion of the total launch rate, but, since the 1990s, the proportion has exploded, with private space companies presenting large projects one after another, accounting for more than 50% of the total launch rate. This diversification of space actors and the increase in orbital space objects have led to changes in the perspectives of existing space environmental management processes. During and after the Cold War, when the space age began, civilian actors' actions were limited, and policies limited their actions, too. So they had little impact on government space activities. However, space technology's entry barrier has lowered since, and policies to facilitate commercial space launches have been implemented for a long, and the accumulated amount of space waste over the past 60 years is also threatening the safety, stability, and sustainability of space use. This paper examined how the United States, the most active country in commercial space launches, has managed commercial space launches. The United States has a Space Traffic Management (STM), distributed to departments such as the Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, Department of Transport, NASA, etc. A review of changes in U.S STM management policy could also provide implications for us to manage commercial space launches in Korea.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.49-59
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• 2022

메타버스는 가상, 초월을 의미하는 '메타(meta)'와 세계, 우주를 의미하는 '유니버스(universe)'의 합성어로 현실 세계를 초월한 디지털 세계라고 정의할 수 있다. 이러한 메타버스는 현실 세계와 평행한 디지털 세계의 구축을 시작으로 블록체인(Blockchain), 인공지능(AI) 등의 기술과 고성능 웨어러블 디바이스(Wearable Device) 기반의 높은 몰입감을 제공하여 현실과 상호 작용하는 디지털 세계로 진화하고 있다. 이에 따라, 현재의 메타버스는 기존의 디지털 세계를 구축하고 활용하는 다양한 서비스가 포함된 개념으로 확장되고 있으며, 최종적으로는 현실과 디지털 세계의 경계가 없는 초현실적인 세계로 발전할 것이다. 이러한 메타버스 발전의 뒤에는 많은 보안 기술들이 필요하며, 실제 개인의 프라이버시 문제 및 보안 위협에 대한 우려가 증가하고 있다. 특히, 높은 몰입감을 제공하기 위해 이전보다 더욱 다양한 생체정보를 포함한 개인정보가 사용될 것이며, 이러한 데이터는 개인을 특정하는 ID(Identity)로 활용될 수 있다. 이에, 개인정보에 대한 보안 위협은 더욱 다양해질 것이고, 동시에 안전한 개인정보 활용이 가능한 ID 관리 기술개발의 필요성도 높아질 것이다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 메타버스의 개념과 함께 진화 과정을 제시하고, 메타버스의 진화에 따라 다양해지는 ID 관련 보안 위협 및 대응 기술을 분석을 통해 ID 관리 기술의 현황을 정리한다.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.224-235
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• 2022

This study aimed to confirm the status of media reports on space hazards using topic modeling analysis of media articles that are related to space hazards for the past 12 years. Therefore, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) analysis was performed by collecting over 1200 space hazards articles between 2010 and 2021 on solar storm, artificial space objects, and natural space objects from BIGKins news platform. The articles related to solar storm focused on three topics: the effect of solar explosion on satellites; effect of solar explosion on radio communication in Korea, centered on the Korean Space Weather Center; and relationship between aircrew and space radiation. The articles related to artificial space objects focused on three topics: the threat of space garbage to satellite and space stations and the transition of useful objects into space junk; the relationship between space garbage and humanity as shown in movies; and the effort of developed countries for tracking, monitoring, and disposing of space garbage. The articles related to natural space objects focused on two topics: International Space Agency's tracking and monitoring of near-Earth asteroids and the countermeasures of collisions, and the evolution and extinction of dinosaurs and mammals, with a focus on the collisions of asteroids or comets. Therefore, this study confirmed that domestic media play a role in conveying dangers of space hazards and arousing the attention of public using a total of eight themes in various fields such as society and culture, and derived education method and policy on space hazards.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.120-126
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• 2013

Increasing numbers of space debris around the earth now pose a major threat to satellites as their impact velocity may reach up to several km/s. We use a pulse laser to accelerate a miniflyer for mimicking the space debris. The multi-layer coat on the confined medium is known to promote a higher acceleration. However, it requires some special techniques which take somewhat long time and cost to coat. Instead, we devised a simple concept to coat by the black lacquer paint on a flyer. It shows improvement in the flyer velocity by 1.5-2 times the uncoated, and the resulting velocity reached 1.42km/s with Nd:YAG laser energy under 1.4 joules. The resulting velocity is suitable for satellite vulnerability test for debris impact in the geostationary orbit.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.354-363
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• 2012

Now there are a lot of expired satellites or space debris around the earth orbit and they threaten the operating satellites and manned space missions. KOMPSAT-2 that scheduled to operate the mission by July, 2013 also has to consider the space debris. This paper introduces the '25 years rules' that must be re-entered within 25 years after the space mission for LEO satellites and describes the removal trajectory design that satisfies the '25 years rules' and minimizes fuel consumption. And this paper suggests monte-carlo simulation for risk analysis that causes the approaching object to the removal trajectory. The result shows that the collision probability of worst case presents 6.0741E-07 and it need to more analysis about precise satellite safety during removal maneuver because there is no information about the object size that approaching to the satellites.

• Journal of Space Technology and Applications
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.146-168
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• 2022

Witnessing current military conflicts in South China Sea and Eastern Europe, most defense analysts evaluate one of the most serious security threat toward the US is coming from the superpower competitions with Russia and China. The main means for such super power hegemonic competitions is military power and space power is a key enabler to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of military employment. Reflecting above circumstances, the space hegemonic competition between the Unites States and China is spreading into all aspects of national powers. Under such an environment, R.O.K needs to significantly develop national space power to preserve life and assets of people in space. On the other hand, the R.O.K has a lot of limitations in launching space assets into orbits by land-based space rockets due to its geographic locations. The limitation of rocket launching direction, the failure to secure a significant area enough to secure safety and the limitation to secure open area enough to build associated facilities are among them. On this paper, I will suggest the need to build the 2nd space rocket launching site after analyzing a lot of short-falls the current 'Naro' space center face, compared to those of advanced space powers around the world.

• The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.159-234
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• 2005

As so clearly have been demonstrated in the Gulf War and Iraq Freedom Fight, along with the civilian space exploration and development, the 'militarization' of aerospace technology and the 'battlefield-worthiness' of space are becoming more and more at issue. Korean peninsula, the last major theatre where the 4 world powers' national interests stand face to face, no doubt is in dire need for understanding and organizing necessary legislations for establishing national security from any space threats, such as satellite imaging, as well as countering against such threats. Compare to United States, Japan and China that have already declared the national security as the purpose of the space development, and equipped themselves with necessary legislations, Korea's legislations fall short of fully appreciating and effectively responding to the significance of military use of outer space and its control. This article will review legislations of leading countries' of space law and space technologies from two different perspectives. After briefly summarizing the problems of Korea's current legislations, particularly with the National Space Development Act (proposal), drafted by Ministry of Science and Technology, in mind, this article reviews and offers certain legislative directions to which Korea should pursuel for national security of outer space.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.47 no.12
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• pp.904-912
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• 2019

We have studied the numerical analysis about the fragment ejection velocity and spray angle when the High Explosive warhead detonated at proximity distance at an aircraft. To study the physical quantities about the warhead components is very important to assessment the vulnerability of aircraft. Generally, the physical quantities about the components of a warhead such as the mass, length, diameter and charge to mass ratio are unknown. Therefore, it is required to estimate the physical quantities by using physical continuities of similar threats. The empirical formulas to understand the dependence among charge to mass ratio, length and diameter ratio were driven by using the physical parameters of similar threatening such as terrier, sparrow. As a result, we confirmed that the dead mass ratio was closed to 20% of warhead mass since the metal case of the proximity threat acts as a simple carrier. This implies that the effective length and diameter of High Explosive Compound is smaller than the length and diameter of warhead, and become a key to understand the large ejection gradient velocity and small spray angle of fragments within 6 degree.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.168-174
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• 1977

과학기술의 비약적인 발전에 따라서, 우주개발, 해양개발등을 실현시키는 단계에 이르렀고, 또한 이에 발맞추어 기계 및 구조물에 사용되는 각종부재의 경량화를 꾀하는 한편 사용장소가 매우 험악해지고 있다. 이와같은 사회적인 추세에 따라 재료가 보다 협악한 조건화에서 사용된다는 사 실은 최근에는 일만상식처럼되고 있다 따라서 험악한 장소에서 파괴가 발생한다면 최악이 경우는 인명을 위협하기도 한다. 이와같은 일반사항을 고려하여 본강좌(4) 에서는 특히 부식되기쉬운 장 소에서 부재가 사용되었을 때의 부식피로에 대하여, 극히 일반적인 사항을 간추려보기로 하겠다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.51-59
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• 2017

The role of government is to defend its lands and people from enemies. The range of that defense has now extended into the cyber domain, regarded as the fourth domain of the conventional defense domains (i.e., land, sea, sky, and universe). Traditionally, a government's intelligence power overrides that of its civilians, and government is exclusively responsible for defense. However, it is difficult for government to take the initiative to defend in the cyber domain because civilians already have a greater means for collecting information, which is known as being "intelligence inverse" in the cyber domain. To this end, we first define the intelligence inverse phenomenon and then analyze its main features. Then we investigate foreign countries' efforts to overcome the phenomenon and look at the current domestic situation. Based on these results, we describe the appropriate role of the National Intelligence Agency to handle cyber threats and offer a cyber threat intelligence model to share with civilians to help protect against these threats. Using the proposed model, we propose that the National Intelligence Agency should establish a base system that will respond to cyber threats more effectively.