S. Korea successfully test-launched locally developed rocket
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South Korea successfully tested a wholly domestically-developed rocket engine on Wednesday.
It's an encouraging step forward in reaching the long-term goal of launching the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-2 by 2021.
Choi Si-young reports.
"Engine Ignition "
"Launch "
According to the Ministry of Science and ICT and Korea Aerospace Research Institute,... the engine fully-combusted for one-hundred-fifty-one seconds,... eleven seconds longer... than what the team considers a successful run.
"On Wednesday at 4 p.m. Korea time, the rocket engine was successfully launched from the Naro Space Center... in Goheung, Jeollanam-do Province."
The rocket flew for about ten minutes.
It reached a peak altitude of roughly 200 kilometers after some three hundred seconds into flight... before splashing down in international waters off the southeastern coast of Jeju-do Island.
The engine,... is nearly twenty-six meters high,... three meters wide,... and weighs in at fifty-two tons.
The engine launch is a trial run for the country's second carrier rocket known as Korea Space Launch Vehicle 2 or Nuri, meaning "the world" in ancient Korean.
Nuri is a three-stage vehicle developed entirely with homegrown technology using 75 ton force engines... to launch satellites into the orbit in 2021.
Wednesday's test launch was for only the second-stage of the Nuri's propulsion,... with the first and third-stage engines to be tested starting early next year.
Choi Si-young, Arirang News.
It's an encouraging step forward in reaching the long-term goal of launching the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-2 by 2021.
Choi Si-young reports.
"Engine Ignition "
"Launch "
According to the Ministry of Science and ICT and Korea Aerospace Research Institute,... the engine fully-combusted for one-hundred-fifty-one seconds,... eleven seconds longer... than what the team considers a successful run.
"On Wednesday at 4 p.m. Korea time, the rocket engine was successfully launched from the Naro Space Center... in Goheung, Jeollanam-do Province."
The rocket flew for about ten minutes.
It reached a peak altitude of roughly 200 kilometers after some three hundred seconds into flight... before splashing down in international waters off the southeastern coast of Jeju-do Island.
The engine,... is nearly twenty-six meters high,... three meters wide,... and weighs in at fifty-two tons.
The engine launch is a trial run for the country's second carrier rocket known as Korea Space Launch Vehicle 2 or Nuri, meaning "the world" in ancient Korean.
Nuri is a three-stage vehicle developed entirely with homegrown technology using 75 ton force engines... to launch satellites into the orbit in 2021.
Wednesday's test launch was for only the second-stage of the Nuri's propulsion,... with the first and third-stage engines to be tested starting early next year.
Choi Si-young, Arirang News.