KARI's vision is to continue building upon indigenous launch capabilities, strengthen national safety and public service, industrialize satellite information and applications technology, explore the Moon, and develop environmentally-friendly and highly-efficient cutting-edge aircraft and core aerospace technology.

Prior to South Korea's entry into the Institute for Advanced Engineering (IAE) in 1992, it focused primarily on aerospace technology.

[12] The Palau Tracking Station is equipped with a 7.3m diameter remote data receiving antenna and satellite communication network on a 28,000㎡ site.

It can receive remote data and images such as real-time flight position, speed, attitude, stage separation, satellite separation signal, pressure, temperature, voltage, and current of launch vehicles or payloads, and can also receive data from launch vehicles that are more than 3,000km away from the Naro Space Center.

Their goal was to develop a solid unguided science tube survey rocket that could observe the ozone layer over the Korean Peninsula.

It was originally a cluster of indigenous liquid KSR-III rockets with a solid propellant to form a multistage launcher.

However, KARI experienced more difficulties than expected in SLV development, because it required much stronger propellant power than KSR-III possessed to launch a satellite into orbit.

[19] After several failed attempts, KARI turned to Russia's Khrunichev Design Bureau for assistance in developing a liquid-propellant rocket engine for the KSLV-1 as well as for cooperation in the construction of the launch facility at the Naro Space Center.

Active Missions: KSLV-1, KSLV-2, Koreasat, ANASIS-II The KAIST's SaTReC, responsible for the nation's small scientific satellites.

The two governments plan to work together to ensure compatibility and enhance interoperability of GPS and KPS for civil purposes.

The project will be carried out by KARI in charge of the system, the main body of the orbiter, and the ground station, and South Korean universities and research institutes will cooperate together.

[33] A 10-year program to develop a stratospheric airship for telecommunication relays and ground observations at 20 km altitude has started in December 2000.