South Korea is set to conduct its first test launch into space of a domestically built rocket in a major step toward jumpstarting the country’s space programme
KSLV-II NURI rocket is moved to its launch pad at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Korea, on October 20, 2021.
Thursday's launch is one step on an increasingly ambitious space programme for South Korea, which President Moon Jae-in said would seek to launch a lunar orbiter next year after he inspected a Nuri engine test in March. The South Korean space programme has a chequered record- its first two launches in 2009 and 2010, which in part used Russian technology, both ended in failure, the second one exploding two minutes into the flight and Seoul and Moscow blaming each other.
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