South Korea's first launch vehicle built with wholly domestic technology, following an earlier KSLV-I developed jointly with Russia. Its second flight in 2022 successfully placed a satellite in orbit, making South Korea the seventh nation to launch a satellite over one ton with an indigenous rocket.
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Vehicle ClassMedium-lift expendable launch vehicle 2 ManufacturerKorea Aerospace Research Institute 2 First Flight DateDate of its first flight, which reached space but whose dummy payload failed to reach stable orbit; its second flight in June 2022 was fully successful. Status
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Source Nuri (rocket) (Wikipedia)
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1. Nuri (rocket) (Wikipedia)
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Nuri (Korean: 누리; lit. 'world'), also known as KSLV-II (Korean Space Launch Vehicle-II), is an expendable, three-stage-to-orbit, small-lift launch vehicle, the second one developed by South Korea, and the successor to Naro-1 (KSLV-1) It is developed by Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI).
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