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The 2009 attempt saw the rocket launch without issue, before a faulty release mechanisms on the second stage prevented the proper deployment of the satellite.<\/p>\n
The 2010 failure was more dramatic, with the vehicle exploding two minutes into its first stage ascent.<\/p>\n
This third successful attempt marks South Korea as the 13th nation to successfully launch a rocket from their home soil.<\/p>\n
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The rocket\u2019s history ranges back to a 2004 agreement between Korea and Russia to jointly develop and build a space booster complex for the KSLV-1 launch vehicle. This agreement came to an end via the success of Wednesday\u2019s launch.<\/p>\nThe first stage of KSLV-I was developed and fabricated in Russia while the second stage and payload were designed and built in South Korea.<\/p>\n
South Korean media claim it took nearly 200 national institutes and companies, including the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, to build the second-stage rocket of the Naro-1. The space program has so far cost 520 billion won (US$ 471 million).<\/p>\n
The Science and Technology Satellite-2C (STSAT-2C) satellite was developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, 164 km south of Seoul.<\/p>\n
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The 100-kg satellite is a test spacecraft with a short lifespan of less than one year. It was designed solely to verify the country\u2019s ability to put a satellite into orbit.<\/p>\nThe nine minute flight to orbit began with the launch of KSLV-1, which then performs a \u201ckick-turn\u201d and veers south 900m above launch pad.<\/p>\n
Fairing jettison occurred at T+3:36 at an altitude of 177km \u2013 and 245km downrange \u2013 followed 12 seconds later by staging.<\/p>\n
At T+7:33 into the flight, the second stage shut down, as STSAT-2C reached the correct trajectory for a stable orbit at an altitude of 300km. 90 seconds later, the STSAT-2C was separated, prior to deploying its solar arrays.<\/p>\n
South Korea have made bold claims as to their space flight ambitions, with a goal to develop an indigenous 75 ton thrust engine by 2018 and a 300-ton launch vehicle by 2021.<\/p>\n
(Images via Korean TV and Yonhapnews).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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