{"id":825,"date":"2025-07-10T02:24:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T02:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workerinspace.com\/?p=825"},"modified":"2025-07-10T02:33:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T02:33:31","slug":"pioneering-in-orbit-servicing-in-korea-workerinspace-signs-loi-with-kt-sat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workerinspace.com\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering In-Orbit Servicing in Korea: WorkerInSpace Signs LOI with KT SAT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce a major milestone for Korea&#8217;s space industry! \ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WorkerInSpace has officially signed <strong>Korea\u2019s first Letter of Intent (LOI)<\/strong> for in-orbit servicing with <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsat.com\">KT SAT<\/a>, marking a pivotal step toward commercial satellite life-extension services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since April, both companies have worked closely to explore technical and commercial collaboration opportunities. The LOI confirms that <strong>KT SAT has expressed its intent to purchase in-orbit servicing<\/strong>\u2014such as <strong>orbital and attitude control<\/strong>, <strong>refueling<\/strong>, and <strong>satellite repair<\/strong>\u2014for satellites it currently operates or plans to operate, <strong>following the successful demonstration of WorkerInSpace\u2019s technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Who we are:<\/strong><br>Founded in January 2024 by aerospace professor Haedong Kim, WorkerInSpace is Korea\u2019s first space startup dedicated to satellite life extension and in-space manufacturing. We opened our R&amp;D center in Sejong City earlier this year and are now actively raising our Pre-A round to launch Korea\u2019s first servicing satellite, <strong>VEROS-1<\/strong>, by 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s next:<\/strong><br>With this LOI, VEROS-1 is set to demonstrate key servicing capabilities on KT SAT\u2019s retired satellite in orbit\u2014a crucial step toward global commercialization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at the article below. \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edaily.co.kr\/News\/Read?newsId=03099606642233208&amp;mediaCodeNo=257&amp;OutLnkChk=Y\">\uc704\uc131 \uc218\uba85\uc5f0\uc7a5 \uae38 \uc5f4\uc5c8\ub2e4\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\uc6cc\ucee4\ub9b0\uc2a4\ud398\uc774\uc2a4\u00b7KT SAT \ud611\ub825<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SpaceIndustry #OnOrbitServicing #SatelliteLifeExtension #WorkerInSpace #KTSAT #NewSpace #KoreaSpace #VEROS1 #StartupNews<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce a major milestone for Korea&#8217;s space industry! \ud83d\ude80 WorkerInSpace has officially signed Korea\u2019s first Letter of Intent (LOI) for in-orbit servicing with KT SAT, marking a pivotal step toward commercial satellite life-extension services. Since April, both companies have worked closely to explore technical and commercial collaboration opportunities. The LOI confirms that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workerinspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workerinspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workerinspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workerinspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workerinspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workerinspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workerinspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workerinspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workerinspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workerinspace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}