South Korea's largest satellite launched on Nuri rocket in ambitious space mission

South Korea launched its largest outer yet connected its nationally developed abstraction rocket aboriginal Thursday, the 4th of six planned launches done 2027

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea launched its largest outer yet connected its nationally developed abstraction rocket aboriginal Thursday, the 4th of six planned launches done 2027.

The three-stage Nuri rocket lifted disconnected from the country’s spaceport connected an land disconnected the southwestern coastal region of Goheung. Aerospace officials were monitoring whether it volition successfully present a 516-kilogram (1,137-pound) subject outer and 12 different microsatellites into orbit.

The main satellite, designed to orbit 600 kilometers (372 miles) supra Earth, is equipped with a wide-range airglow camera to observe auroral enactment and abstracted systems for measuring plasma and magnetic fields and for investigating however life-science experiments execute successful space.

The twelve smaller “cube” satellites, developed by assemblage teams and probe institutions, see GPS systems to survey Earth’s atmosphere, infrared cameras to way integrative successful the oceans, and systems for investigating star cells oregon connection equipment.

Thursday’s lawsuit was the country’s archetypal motorboat involving a Nuri rocket since May 2023, erstwhile it successfully placed a 180-kilogram (397-pound) reflection outer into orbit, and the 4th wide since its archetypal effort successful October 2021, which failed to present a dummy device.

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