South Korea satellite fails to enter correct orbit
The rocket was Seoul's first domestic space launch.

The Associated Press

August 25, 2009 | 3:53 a.m.

GOHEUNG, South Korea - South Korea's first rocket blasted into space today just months after its rival North Korea drew international ire for its own launch.

A problem quickly surfaced, however, when space officials said that an initial investigation showed that the satellite the rocket was carrying apparently failed to enter its intended orbit.

Science and Education Minister Ahn Byong-man told reporters that South Korean and Russian scientists were looking into the problem. It was not immediately clear whether the problem jeopardizes the success of the launch.

The launch of the two-stage Naro rocket could boost the country's space ambition but the North warned it would keep a close eye on the international response to Seoul's launch.

South Korea initially planned to launch the rocket in late July but delayed it several times due to technical glitches. Last Wednesday, the country aborted the launch plan just minutes before the scheduled blast off.

But Tuesday, all went according to plan. The rocket lifted off from the country's space center on Oenaro Island, about 290 miles south of Seoul.

It is South Korea's first launch of a rocket from its own territory. Since 1992, it has sent up 11 satellites, all on foreign-made rockets sent from overseas sites.

The rocket, built with Russian help, was carrying a domestically built satellite aimed at observing the atmosphere and ocean.

South Korean officials hope the rocket will boost the country's aim to become a regional space power, along with China, Japan and India. North Korea, however, has warned it would "closely watch" how the U.S. and other countries respond to the South's launch.

In April, the North claimed it launched a multistage rocket it said was mounted with a satellite. The U.S., Japan and other nations condemned the launch as a test of ballistic missile technology since the same rocket can be mounted with a warhead. The U.N. Security Council subsequently slapped Pyongyang with sanctions, calling the launch a violation of resolutions banning it from conducting missile-related activity.

In recent weeks, the North has significantly softened its stance toward the South, freeing a South Korean worker held there for more than four months, agreeing to lift restrictions on border crossings and pledging to resume joint projects and the reunion of families separated during the Korean War.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-korea-launch26-2009aug26,0,7806999.story

How well did China's first launch go, zergcerebrates?

All in all, I suspect the South Koreans will develop fairly reliable launch capabilities within a decade or so...more competitors in that market can't hurt.

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I never would have thought Korea could fail at this but not koreas failed in the same year... OUCH..

Its hard to imagine how Iran pulled off such a mission with such limited resources and severe sanctions..

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Ey Iran...

iran has send satelight in to orbit?

failures r part of grand success .. keep on  going 

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1N 1971 A NEW HISTORY AS WELL AS A NEW NATION WAS CREATED BY WE THE INDIANS..

Its hard to imagine how Iran pulled off such a mission with such limited resources and severe sanctions..
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They got lucky, the Safir SLV is a North Korean design any ways......

"Its hard to imagine how Iran pulled off such a mission with such limited resources and severe sanctions.."

They had the backing of Allah.

Besides have you seen the "sattelite"?




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"failures r part of grand success .. keep on going "

you mean like arjun, lca and H-bomb ?

@peshawar,
yes, its name beings Omid, launcheds on safir

@fatso incestuous amerikunts

not every country relyings on foreign designs and brains like von braun to launch satellites LOL


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""quote
"failures r part of grand success .. keep on going "

you mean like arjun, lca and H-bomb ?
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lol

^^ YEA LOL, the bread you eat is brought from the money donated by a kind hearted foreigner. LOL on that beggar kaum.




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