<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1655824471139,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017d-00b6-db7d-abfd-7cb766d10000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1655824471139,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017d-00b6-db7d-abfd-7cb766d10000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
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The launch renders South Korea one of at least seven countries capable of sending satellites into orbit through domestically developed rocket systems, showcasing its advanced propulsion technology as its belligerent neighbor to the north fires off military-grade rocket tests, ABC News reported.
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“The science and technology of the Republic of Korea have made a great advance,” Science Minister Lee Jong-Ho said. “The government will continue its audacious march toward becoming a space power together with the people.”
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Last Thursday was initially slated to be the launch date, but weather concerns and a technical glitch forced a delay. The Nuri was loaded with a 358-pound performance-verification satellite, four cube research satellites, and a dummy satellite. The liftoff went according to plan, and the rocket successfully reached an altitude of 435 miles above the Earth’s surface.
South Korea joined the United States, Russia, Japan, India, France, and China in its successful use of self-developed propulsion technology for blasting satellites into space, according to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute. The launch on Tuesday came from the Nuri Development Project, also referred to as the Korean Launch Vehicle project, which began in 2010.
South Korea Space Rocket
In October, the country launched a Nuri rocket for the first time, but the engine burned out about a minute earlier than expected, preventing its payload from entering orbit, the Associated Press reported. The launch Tuesday was its second attempt.
“The road from South Korea to space has opened now,” President Yoon Suk Yeol said after the launch. “It’s the fruit of the difficult challenges of the past 30 years. Now, our Korean people and our young people’s dream and hope will reach toward space.”
South Korea Space Rocket
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South Korea previously blasted its first rocket, the Naro-1, into orbit in 2013 in collaboration with Russia. South Korea is also collaborating with NASA on developing a lunar orbiter, which is slated to launch next year.
South Korea has not launched its own spy satellites into orbit and has relied heavily on the U.S. for satellite surveillance, particularly of neighboring North Korea. Now that it has demonstrated its domestic capability to launch satellites into orbit, it plans to send spy satellites into space in the future.
