SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is seeking to conduct a full-fledged solid-fuel space rocket launch in 2025, a government researcher said Monday, following its major performance test last week. The country is aiming to launch the rocket to place a 500-kilogram experimental satellite into a low Earth orbit at an altitude of [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea successfully test-fired a solid-fuel space rocket Wednesday, the defense ministry said, following North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch last week. The state-run Agency for Defense Development conducted the first such test at a testing site in Taean, 150 kilometers southwest of Seoul, to confirm capabilities of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Friday that it plans to make a second attempt to launch its homegrown space rocket in mid-June, about eight months after its first flight ended in failure due to technical glitches. The Nuri rocket will be lifted off on June 15, about one month later than [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The loosening of a device to anchor a helium tank of the Nuri space rocket was found to have caused the early shutdown of the rocket’s third-stage engine, leading to a mission failure, the science ministry said Wednesday. In October, South Korea launched the country’s first homegrown space rocket, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to embark on a civilian-military project next year to design a solid-fuel space launch vehicle under a broad initiative to develop the country’s space defense industry, the state arms procurement agency said Tuesday. At a policy forum, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) unveiled the initiative [...]
JEJU, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the launch of South Korea’s first homegrown space rocket Nuri, another challenge for space will be made on Jeju Island. Jeju’s provincial government said Tuesday that the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) will test the launch of a science observation rocket in Hangyeong-myeon township on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s launch of its first homegrown space rocket ended in “half-success” Thursday, but it will likely prompt the country to double its efforts to join the global space club with its homegrown rocket technology. The KSLV-II, also known as Nuri, carried a 1.5-ton dummy satellite after being blasted [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will launch its first homegrown space rocket next month as it is in the final stages of preparations, the science ministry said Wednesday. The Ministry of Science and ICT said the rocket, Nuri, will lift off Oct. 21 as scheduled at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to develop and launch an indigenous solid-propellant space rocket by 2024, officials said Thursday, following the successful combustion test of its engine in July. According to the defense ministry, the state-run Agency for Defense Development successfully conducted the combustion test of a solid-propellant engine for space [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea unveiled Tuesday a fully assembled model of its homegrown space rocket for the first time since the country started its development in 2010 as it conducts final testing procedures before its launch later this year. South Korea has earmarked 2 trillion won (US$1.8 billion) to develop its [...]