2013년 국내외 우주개발 투자 및 연구 정책 동향

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The world governments investments on space program have continuously increased and reached a historical peak of $72.9 billion in 2012 despite of the financial crisis of 2008 from the U. S. The investments of the U. S. and European countries reduced or maintained their investment on space program, however, the new starters of space program in Middle Asia and Latin America, Russia, and China show enormous growth of space budget. The Space Powers announced their plans of space programs and policies in 2012. Russia showed the will of space activities through the new plan of space development until 2020 and policies for space activities until 2030. Europe, China, Japan, and India also showed various future space programs through new plans and roadmaps of their space programs. Korea succeeded the launches of KOMPSAT-3 and KSLV-1 in 2012 and early 2013. These successes are the milestones of Koreans space history. And the new administration of President Geun-hye Park considers the important policy issues and started strong support on space programs. Korean space budget in 2013 is expected to reach the peak with KSLV-2 project. In this paper, the investment of world governmental space program and research activities were presented and compared with Korean space activities and policies. Through these, current status of Korean space policies was reviewed.