{"id":413067,"date":"2026-05-05T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/413067\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:34:12","slug":"hancom-inspace-gains-hyperspectral-sensor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/413067\/","title":{"rendered":"Hancom InSpace gains hyperspectral sensor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2013 South Korea\u2019s Hancom InSpace is expanding its Earth-observation constellation with Sejong-3, a cubesat with a hyperspectral sensor, launched in March on a SpaceX <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/spacex-launches-transporter-16-rideshare-mission\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transporter rideshare<\/a> and currently undergoing commissioning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSejong-3 is an important addition\u00a0to our Sejong constellation because\u00a0it brings hyperspectral capability alongside the multispectral imaging already provided by Sejong-2 and Sejong-4,\u201d Seeung-chan \u201cWesley\u201d Heo, Hancom InSpace overseas business manager, told SpaceNews. \u201cThis supports a broader range of Earth observation applications such as vegetation monitoring, mineral monitoring, soil observations, and environmental analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"409\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rsz_screenshot_2026-04-29_at_60151-pm-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-591451\"  \/>Baekdoosan, North Korea, image acquired by Hancom InSpace Sejong-4 cubesat.  Credit: Hancom InSpace<\/p>\n<p>Hancom InSpace, a spinoff of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute was acquired in 2020 by South Korean technology conglomerate Hancom Group to fuse space and airborne data for decision-support services.<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/hancom-group-to-launch-sejong-1-satellite-in-2022-opening-the-worlds-first-three-tiered-remote-sensing-image-data-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sejong-1<\/a>, launched in 2022, and <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/hancom-inspace-orders-more-spire-satellites-with-hancom-2-in-limbo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sejong-2<\/a>, launched in June 2025, Hancom InSpace multispectral instruments were mounted on Spire Global cubesats. South Korea\u2019s Nuri Korean Space Launch Vehicle sent another Hancom InSpace electro-optical satellite, Sejong-4, into low-Earth orbit in November. Spire also provided the satellite, launch and operations for Sejong-3.  <\/p>\n<p>Hancom InSpace is \u201cin the early stage of development\u201d of Sejong-5, a satellite currently being developed that may be equipped with a chip-scale atomic clock.<\/p>\n<p>Hancom InSpace plans \u201cto continue expanding the Sejong series in order to provide Earth observation data more frequently and precisely, strengthening our overall service capabilities, Heo said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2013 South Korea\u2019s Hancom InSpace is expanding its Earth-observation constellation with Sejong-3, a cubesat with a hyperspectral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[212385,29984,111,139,69,147,2303,4790,392],"class_list":["post-413067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-hancom-inspace","tag-hyperspectral","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-sn","tag-south-korea","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}