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The authorities south korean They already have the Nuri rocket on the launch pad, which tomorrow is scheduled to make its first flight with real satellites on board.
The space vehicle, also known as KSLV-II, already successfully completed its maiden flight and device deployment in low Earth orbit last June, although on that occasion it was loaded with simulated satellites.
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Nuri is already upright on the launch pad of the Naro Space Center, in the town of Goheung (350 kilometers south of Seoul) and is undergoing pre-launch technical reviews, the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technologies and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute reported in a statement. (KARI).
Both institutions will hold a launch management committee meeting in the next few hours to decide whether to proceed with the time and date scheduled for the launch; tomorrow Wednesday May 24 around 18:24 local time (9:24 GMT).
Nuri loads this time with eight satellites, including the first small satellite and second generation and four microsatellites.
The successful launch last year -which was a second attempt since in 2021 the rocket completed its flight sequence but could not deploy the devices in space due to a failure in its third phase engine- meant turning South Korea is the seventh country in the world to develop a vehicle capable of carrying a satellite weighing more than one ton after Russia, the US, France, China, Japan and India.
South Korea has invested almost 2 trillion won (about 1.8 billion dollars) since 2010 in the development of Nuri, whose design, production, equipment and testing have been carried out entirely on national soil.
In addition to the launch scheduled for tomorrow, South Korea plans to carry out an additional three launches between now and 2027 to continue testing the Nuri and continue adding advances in its space program.
Source: Elcomercio
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