Samsung’s fascination with the word Galaxy is about to go beyond its brand of smartphones, as the company reportedly wants to enter the space infrastructure market by developing a space plant project. With this “space plant” project, Samsung would look into building space infrastructure like launch pads and other spacecraft components, though it’s still unclear when Samsung will actually begin this work.

The report comes from The Korea Economy Daily, which notes that Samsung is now in talks with the Department of Aerospace and Engineering at Seoul University to build an R&D center. Space experts in South Korea also believe the country’s economy could improve significantly by entering this industry. Samsung appears keen on being a leader in the segment.

A space plant project is likely an easily attainable goal for Samsung

An endeavor like this might seem strange, given what we typically think of when Samsung is mentioned. Phones, TVs, earbuds, watches. All of this technology is categorized as consumer electronics, and it’s what Samsung is known best for. At least to everyday consumers. That being said, Samsung, much like Huawei, actually has several different company divisions that have nothing to do with consumer electronics.

For example, Samsung manufactures large ships through its Samsung Heavy Industries division. In fact, it’s one of the largest shipbuilders in the world. Samsung Heavy Industries has also completed several offshore EPC projects, in addition to developing and manufacturing ships for use in polar applications, such as arctic ice-breaking container ships. This could help Samsung immensely in breaking into the space infrastructure market. Even if it seems far-removed.

According to The Korea Economy Daily, Samsung is well-positioned to take its skills in offshore projects and semiconductors and apply them to the space industry in this manner. As noted by Park Hyeong-jun, a professor of aerospace engineering at Seoul National University, “South Korea is one of the few countries capable of transferring its manufacturing strengths from semiconductors and nuclear power to offshore plants into the space industry.”

Samsung will test its semiconductors in a high-radiation environment

In addition to building launch pads and other spacecraft components, Samsung is reportedly going to be testing its in-house designed semiconductors in the high-radiation environment of space’s high Earth orbit. This could be a huge opportunity for Samsung, given the gap between Samsung Foundry and TSMC.

Samsung has already signed an agreement with the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute to work on this project. The project is said to include work on the secondary payloads for a CubeSat, which is set to be on NASA’s Artemis II test flight.

This article first appeared on Android Headlines

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