NARA Space Standard Satellite Platforms

Nara Space Technology is a satellite company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, that presents itself as Korea's integrated satellite service. It builds small satellites and analyses their imagery, so that local governments, agencies and companies can own a satellite mission without a large in-house space team.

Its standard offer, based on the flight heritage of Observer-1A, includes turnkey satellites and bus platforms. Observer carries an 8-band multispectral payload at 1.5 m resolution, and NarSha a 150-band hyperspectral payload for methane detection. Customers supplying their own payloads can choose 6U, 12U or 16U buses. A web configurator estimates custom satellite costs, and the company adds mission support, an imagery platform and AI-based image analysis. Recent missions include the GYEONGGISat-2A methane-monitoring satellite and the E3T-2 verification satellite.

• Observer: turnkey Earth observation satellite with 1.5 m resolution and 8 multispectral bands.
• NarSha: turnkey hyperspectral satellite with 150 bands and methane detection.
• Bus platforms: 6U, 12U and 16U buses with space heritage for customer payloads.
• Custom satellite configurator: online tool giving an itemised cost estimate.
• Mission support: development, launch and operations support services.
• Imagery platform and AI analysis: satellite image services and analytical reports.

• Provincial authorities in Vietnam commissioning a 6U or 16U satellite for land, flood and coastal monitoring.
• Energy and waste companies using hyperspectral methane detection to track emissions at sites.
• Disaster agencies receiving AI-based flood damage reports to prioritise relief areas.

• Published list prices, from USD 1.2 million for a 6U bus to USD 3.5 million for a hyperspectral NarSha satellite, make budgeting transparent.
• Turnkey satellites include payload, bus and mission support.
• Space heritage from Observer-1A and recent government missions.
• AI imagery analysis turns data into reports such as flood damage assessments.

Provincial governments and smaller nations increasingly want their own small satellites for climate, methane and disaster monitoring rather than relying only on purchased imagery. Southeast Asian countries exposed to floods and tracking emissions commitments are a natural market for affordable turnkey satellites combined with analytics.

Headquartered in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. Built Observer-1A and GYEONGGISat-2A, Korea's first methane-monitoring satellite, launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2026, and operates the E3T-2 satellite launched on Korea's NURI rocket carrying Samsung memory parts. Delivered a flood analysis report to the Embassy of Nepal in 2026.