Korea: 8-satellite Korea Positioning System still working through frequency coordination; first satellite planned for 2027

by Peter B. de Selding

TUPPER LAKE, NY — Korea is maintaining its plans for a $3-billion Korean Positioning System (KPS) of three geostationary-orbit and five inclined-GEO satellites, with a first launch in 2027, but is still working out frequency coordination with other nations’ positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) networks.

Korea’s 14-year KPS began in 2022 with the filing of frequencies at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). It was never going to be easy to find space among the other PNT systems.

In a March 22 . . .

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