S. Korea launches homegrown space rocket
STORY: S. Korea launches homegrown space rocket
DATELINE: June 22, 2022
LENGTH: 00:01:59
LOCATION: Seoul
CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the space rocket launching (courtesy of ROK's Ministry of Science and ICT)
STORYLINE:
South Korea successfully launched its homegrown space rocket on Tuesday, putting multiple satellites into low-Earth orbit.
The Korea Space Launch Vehicle (KSLV)-II, also dubbed Nuri, blasted off from the Naro Space Center in the southern coastal village of Goheung at about 4:00 p.m. local time, live footage from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) showed.
The three-stage space rocket flew past an altitude of 200 km after separating its fairing at about 4:03 p.m., and the third-stage booster engine stopped at 4:13 p.m. as it reached the target altitude of 700 km.
The verification satellite and the dummy satellite were separated from the booster at 4:14 p.m. and 4:16 p.m. each.
The rocket was loaded with a 162.5-kg performance verification satellite to verify the
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