After network glitch, South Korea's commercial sat-slinger succeeds
South Korea's ambition to get into the commercial satellite launching game has taken off, as it were, after the successful launch of its homegrown Nuri rocket on Thursday.
The three-stage vehicle was scheduled to fly on Wednesday, but the launch was scrubbed after the Korea Aerospace Research Institute found what it described as a communication problem between two computers – one controlling the launch pad and one controlling the launch vehicle.But we digress. KARI crew sorted the networking mess, and Nuri took to the skies at 1824 local time.One of the birds is named"Next Generation Small Satellite No.
All bar one of the satellites has performed as expected. One CubeSat has proven a little hard to track, but KARI isn't unduly worried. South Korea's minister for science and ICT, Lee Jong-ho, was exultant after the successful launch. And why wouldn't he be? South Korea is just the eleventh nation to become capable of building and flying its own vehicle capable of launching satellites, and this mission demonstrated it can do so for commercial customers.
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