TRW dedicates engineering offices for first joint U.S.-Korea satellite project.REDONDO BEACH Redondo Beach (rĭdŏn`dō), city (1990 pop. 60,167), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1892. Once a commercial port for Los Angeles, it is a residential and resort city with a protected harbor and an excellent marina. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 9, 1995--TRW and members of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) is the aeronautics and space agency of South Korea. Its main laboratories are located in Daejeon, in the Daedeok Science Town. Current projects include the KSLV launcher. Past projects include the 1999 Arirang satellite. (KARI KARI Kenya Agricultural Research Institute KARI Korea Aerospace Research Institute KARI Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute (Uganda) ) Wednesday dedicated and officially opened the first U.S. engineering offices for the Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite (KOMPSAT KOMPSAT Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite (joint spacecraft development project for the South Korean aerospace agency) ) program. The offices, which are located here in TRW's Space Park satellite manufacturing complex, will house the satellite design and development activities of more than 100 TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc and Korean engineers involved in the project. KOMPSAT is a lightweight satellite that TRW Space & Electronics Group is developing jointly with KARI and Korean industry. Based on TRW's lightweight, standardized spacecraft bus, it is the first satellite to be jointly developed and produced by U.S. and Korean aerospace companies. KOMPSAT is scheduled to be launched in 1999. Its payload will include a variety of scientific instruments, including a low- resolution camera to monitor ocean and Earth resources, a high- energy particle detector particle detector, in physics, device for detecting, measuring, and analyzing particles and other forms of radiation entering it. Such devices play an important role not only in basic research, as in the study of elementary particles, but also in numerous and a sensor to measure the ionosphere ionosphere (īŏn`əsfēr), series of concentric ionized layers forming part of the upper atmosphere of the earth from around 30 to 50 mi (50 to 80 km) to 250 to 370 mi (400 to 600 km) where it merges with the magnetosphere, the region . ``The opening of the first U.S. KOMPSAT engineering center represents the beginning of a very significant phase of our relationship with KARI and members of the Korean aerospace community,'' said Timothy Hannemann, executive vice president and general manager of TRW's Space & Electronics Group. ``After several months of preparation, we're ready to begin the important exchange of technology and satellite-building know-how which will put the Republic of Korea on the road to becoming a self-sufficient, spacefaring nation. We are excited about the opportunities this program will provide for us to learn more about the cultural and technical expectations of the Korean people.'' TRW and KARI signed their $75 million KOMPSAT contract in March and began work in May. TRW's 52-month contract with KARI calls for building two complete ready-to-launch satellites. The first satellite, known as a protoflight model, will be assembled, integrated and tested at Space Park. A team of engineers led by TRW and including 52 engineers from KARI and Korean industry will design, develop and produce some of the hardware components at Space Park. Korean industry partners will provide some of the hardware for the satellite's electrical, thermal, structural and propulsion subsystems. The second satellite, the actual flight model, will be assembled, integrated and tested at KARI facilities in Taejon, Republic of Korea, by KARI engineers with support from TRW personnel. Jerry Gruninger, TRW's KOMPSAT program manager, said that TRW and Korean engineers will share office space in the new KOMPSAT facility, guaranteeing strong day-to-day collaboration on the KOMPSAT project. The collocation of engineers, he said, not only speeds up the transfer of technology but also enhances the long-term spirit of friendship and cooperation between the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Korea. ``Our success at learning from and working productively with the Koreans,'' he said, ``will contribute significantly to TRW's long-term success at providing satellites and satellite services for other countries in the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. .'' TRW Space & Electronics Group, with headquarters in Redondo Beach, has built more than 185 communications, scientific and defense spacecraft; produced, integrated and tested more than 130 payloads; developed more than 200 advanced space instruments; and integrated some 550 experiments into spacecraft. It is an operating unit operating unit A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon of Cleveland-based TRW Inc., which provides advanced-technology products and services for the automotive, space and defense, and information markets worldwide. TRW's 1994 sales totaled $9 billion. CONTACT: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach A. Brooks McKinney, 310/814-8177 |
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