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KORDI Commences the Full-time Operation of 'Geostationary Ocean Colour Imager'

Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute (KORDI) announced that it will start the full-operation and the related official data distribution service of GOCI (Geostationary Ocean Colour Imager), one of the three main payloads in COMS (Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite) also known as 'Chollian', which was launched in June 27 last year, beginning April 20 after its 9-month-long test operation.
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Korea's geostationary weather-communications satellite the Cheollian had to be deflected earlier this week to prevent it from colliding with a Russian military communications satellite.
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute says the Raduga 1-7 came within three km of the Cheollian's orbit at 128.2 degrees east longitude between Monday and Tuesday.
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Cheollian enters orbit after liftoff

The Cheollian satellite opened communication with the Dongara Ground Station in Australia at 7:19 a.m. on Sunday, 38 minutes after liftoff, according to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.
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Weather satellite successfully launched

South Korea announced the successful launch of its first geostationary satellite, Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite-1 (COMS-1), which is designed to monitor the atmosphere and ocean as well as provide communications.
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South Korea's first geostationary ocean weather satellite is being prepared for liftoff three days behind the original launch date due to mechanical problems, a state-run aerospace agency said Saturday.
It said France's Arianespace SA, which is in charge of the rocket, has rescheduled liftoff for Sunday at 6:41 a.m. (Korea time) after reviewing the "launch vehicle pressurisation anomaly" cited for halting the launch.
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The launch of South Korea's first geostationary ocean weather satellite has been delayed due to mechanical problems, the state-run aerospace agency said Thursday.
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) said that "pressure-related" problems in the second stage have been detected, and the countdown clock stopped with a little more than 47 minutes before blastoff. KARI failed to go into details.
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An Ariane 5 rocket is scheduled to launch the Arabsat 5A and COMS 1 satellites from Kourou, French Guiana, at 21:41 GMT, 23rd June, 2010.

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The hit-or-miss weather forecasts are on everyone's list of the most annoying things in everyday life here. But Korea's space agency claims to have a remedy ready when about $314 million state-of-the-art meteorological satellite is launched next month.
The Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite (COMS-1), which will be strapped to a European rocket and blasted into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) next month, is the first in a series of new Korean satellites to be launched from this year to 2013.
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Arianespace to launch COMS-1 for South Korea
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) has chosen Arianespace to launch its COMS-1 multimission satellite.
Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chief Executive Officer of Arianespace, and Dr. Hong-Yul Paik, President of KARI, signed the launch service contract for the COMS-1 satellite.
COMS-1 will be placed into geostationary transfer orbit by an Ariane 5 from the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, between the end of 2008 and June 2009.
This latest contract from South Korea continues a collaboration that started with the launch of the Kitsat A and B science microsatellites for KARI, followed by the Koreasat 3 communications satellite for operator Korea Telecom.
The COMS-1 contract is the 278th launch service contract signed by Arianespace since its creation in March 1980, and the 12th contract signed in 2006.
The Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite-1 (COMS-1), weighing about 2,600 kg at launch, will be fitted with three payloads, including meteorological observation and ocean surveillance. Because of its orbital position, it will also be fitted with an experimental payload for broadband, multimedia communications services. Program prime contractor Astrium Satellites will build COMS-1 using a Eurostar 3000 platform fitted with a meteorological imager and an ocean observation payload. The experimental telecom payload is being supplied by KARI.

"We are very honoured that KARI has chosen Arianespace and the European launcher to orbit their COMS-1 satellite, which will give South Korea its own oceanic and weather data. For Arianespace, this contract is further recognition of the top-quality services and solutions we offer our customers" - Jean-Yves Le Gall, Arianespace CEO.

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