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Policy funding and venture capital (VC) are flowing into the aerospace sector at the same time. Expanded government support is leading to increased private investment. The VC industry is also showing growing interest in entrepreneurs from KAIST aerospace laboratories, where Korean talent is conce...

Satellite electric-propulsion startup Cosmo Bee announced on July 22 that it had appointed space propulsion-system expert Yeonho Kim as its new Head of R&D Center to accelerate its product launch and business growth. Kim is Korea’s only space-propulsion expert with hands-on experience a...

Cosmo Bee’s Honeybee Hall thruster for microsatellites Satellite constellations, in which multiple satellites operate as a group like SpaceX’s Starlink, are becoming increasingly widespread. As this trend grows, thrusters—devices that continually fine-tune a satellite’s or...

Dongha Park, CEO of Cosmo Bee Dongha Park, CEO of Cosmo Bee | Changes in transportation have transformed people’s lives. The Age of Exploration in the early 15th century was made possible by advances in navigation, which developed rapidly through the use of navigational instruments such as ...

| Developing Electric Thrusters, a Core Technology for Satellite Constellations…Step-by-Step In-Space Verification Through Nuri | Accelerating Commercialization in the Ultra-Small Satellite Market…Taking on the Challenge of Changing the Structure of the Space Industry Through Lower ...

[2026 KEY PLATFORM Special Session: K-Space Forum] Session 3: NewSpace, New Faces IR Cosmo Bee, Developer of Hall Thrusters for Satellites Dongha Park, CEO of Cosmo Bee, presents the company’s next-generation Hall thruster during the “NewSpace, New Faces IR” segment of the inaug...

◇ [Startup Story] Dongha Park, CEO of Cosmo Bee Interview with Dongha Park, CEO of Cosmo Bee / Photo by reporter Changhyun Kim, chmt@ “Cosmo Bee is a company developing technology that enables free movement in space. It is an essential technology for developing new businesses in space, incl...

Honeybee, a Hall thruster developed by Cosmo Bee entirely with homegrown technology Space startup Cosmo Bee is preparing to conduct an in-orbit demonstration of Honeybee, its independently developed Hall thruster for small satellites. Hall thrusters are propulsion systems used to control satellit...

< Source: Seoul Center for Creative Economy & Innovation > The Seoul Center for Creative Economy & Innovation (CEO Lee Young-geun, hereinafter “Seoul CCEI”) announced that it successfully concluded the “Outstanding Achievement-Sharing Event for the Public-Private P...

At dawn on November 27, 2025, Nuri stood ready on the launch pad at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Jeolla Province, carrying the K-HERO CubeSat. Tucked inside the small satellite was a micro electric thruster developed by Cosmo Bee. Research on electric thrusters that had begun several y...

A Hall-effect electric thruster for microsatellites—hereafter referred to as a Hall thruster—co-developed by space propulsion-system specialist Cosmo Bee has been integrated into KAIST’s CubeSat K-HERO and will fly aboard Nuri’s fourth launch. Hall thrusters use electrical...

Cosmo Bee CEO Dongha Park, whose company developed a Hall thruster for microsatellites. / Courtesy of The Vivid Things once thought impossible are becoming reality. Self-driving cars travel along Gangnam-daero, and private citizens take space trips in Earth orbit. At this rate, humans may soon be...

A Hall thruster in operation. / Courtesy of KAIST A Hall thruster for CubeSats, developed by KAIST researchers using artificial intelligence (AI), is scheduled to undergo in-space performance validation aboard a CubeSat on Nuri’s fourth launch in November 2025. KAIST announced on February 3...

Cosmo Bee, a satellite electric-propulsion specialist, has launched a KRW 4 billion Series A round. The company plans to begin in-space validation of its Hall thruster for microsatellites. According to the venture capital industry on September 25, Cosmo Bee recently began investor presentations f...

A test of Cosmo Bee’s electric thruster for microsatellites. Electric thrusters offer high energy efficiency, making them suitable for long-duration satellite missions and deep-space exploration. / Courtesy of Cosmo Bee On October 14, 2023, NASA launched a spacecraft bound for the asteroid ...