On Monday, the rocket was erected on its launch pad at the Naro Space Center on the southern coast of South Korea. It uses only Korean rocket technologies, and is the country’s first domestically built space launch vehicle. Nuri is key to South Korean plans to eventually build a Korean satellite-based navigation system and a 6G communications network. South Korea is also working with the United States on a lunar orbiter, and hopes to land a probe on the moon by 2030. RELATED STORIESSouth Korea readies second attempt to send homegrown rocket to orbitS. Korea’s Moon vows ‘Korean space age’ after mixed rocket test resultsSouth Korea test-fires first indigenous solid-fuel rocket, pushes to launch spy satellitesSubscribe to our daily newsletter By providing an email address.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 21, 2022 16:11 UTC