Space Missions for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Korea: Past, Present, and Future

TL;DR

This paper reviews Korea's space missions in astronomy and astrophysics, covering historical developments, current projects, and future plans, highlighting scientific achievements and technical details.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of Korea's space missions in astronomy, including past, ongoing, and planned projects, with insights into future directions.

Findings

Korea has developed multiple space missions for astronomy and astrophysics.

Current missions are making significant scientific contributions.

Future plans aim to expand Korea’s capabilities in space-based astronomy.

Abstract

We review the history of space mission in Korea focusing on the field of astronomy and astrophysics. For each mission, scientific motivation and achievement are reviewed together with some technical details of the program including mission schedule. This review includes the ongoing and currently approved missions as well as some planned ones. Within the admitted limitations of authors' perspectives, some comments on the future direction of space program for astronomy and astrophysics in Korea are made at the end of this review.