Manufacturer
Korean Agency for Defense DevelopmentANASIS II
7/20/2020
The Anasis-2 telecommunications satellite will operate in geostationary Earth orbit.
Airbus Defence and Space manufactured the Anasis-2 satellite in France.
The Agency for Defense Development developed the Hyunmoo ballistic and cruise missiles, the Anasis-2 military communications satellite, and an active electronically scanned array radar.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on 2020-07-20 that carried Anasis-2, South Korea’s first military communications satellite.
Airbus Defence and Space built the Anasis-2 using the Eurostar E3000 satellite bus.
Airbus shipped the Anasis-2 spacecraft in mid-June from its facility in Toulouse to Cape Canaveral.
In July 2020, a SpaceX Falcon 9 placed South Korea’s first military communications satellite, Anasis-2, into geostationary Earth orbit.
Airbus Defence and Space manufactured the Anasis-2 satellite in France as part of an offset obligation related to a $7,000,000,000 sale of U.S. F-35 fighter jets to South Korea in 2014.