South Korea's first lunar orbiter 'Danuri' successfully launched on a year-long mission to observe the Moon. Photo: Jung Yeon-je / AFPSource: AFPSouth Korea's first lunar orbiter successfully launched on a year-long mission to observe the Moon, Seoul said Friday, with the payload including a new disruption-tolerant network for sending data from space. "Deployment of KPLO confirmed," it said, referring to Danuri using an acronym of its official name, the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter. The lunar orbiter will stream K-pop sensation BTS' song "Dynamite" to test this wireless network. Lunar ambitionsDanuri was launched by a private company -- SpaceX -- but South Korea recently became one of a handful of countries to successfully launch a one-tonne payload using their own rockets.

Source: Daily Nation August 05, 2022 03:02 UTC