South Korea's first space launch to take place 30 July

[SiberianTiger]

http://www.domain-b.com/aero/space/launch_veh/20090603_kslv_1.html

Seoul: South Korea has cleared plans to launch the country's first space rocket, the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1), in July. The country's National Space Committee has approved the launch, tentatively scheduled for 30 July at the Naro Space Centre in Goheung, about 475 km south of Seoul, a government statement said.

The contract to design and build a Space Rocket Complex with a small-lift Launch Vehicle KSLV 1 and the launch complex was signed in Seoul on October 26, 2004 between Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and Khrunichev Space Centre (KhSC), Energomash Research and Production Association and Design Bureau for Transport Engineering (KBTM) from Russian side (http://www.khrunichev.ru/main.php?id=73&hl=kslv).

The booster stage is identical to the one which is to become the 1st stage booster of Russian Angara launch vehicle and will effectively be the first real use of the technology.

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2903866

While the first rocket is the result of cooperation between Korea and Russia, later projects are expected to use mainly Korean technology. The first-stage rocket is made entirely with Russian technology. There are about 100 Russian scientists including 20 security officials working at the Naro Space Center.

As Russia doesn’t allow the transfer of rocket technology, South Korean scientists haven’t been able to participate in the assembly process.

Despite the countless simulations, a successful rocket launch is never guaranteed. Experts say the average success rate stands at only 27.2 percent.

Some information provided on the launcher by KARI:

A fairing separation test picture:

The video of the rocket's mock up's roll out in April, 2009:

 

[Urwumpe]

Where are the complaints about South Korea developing ballistic missiles, Japan threatening to shoot the missile down if parts of it are possibly falling on Japanese territory...

Finally the first "test launch" of the Angara rocket...it's about time.

 

[willy88]

I wonder what NK has to say about this...

 

[Arrowstar]

Glad to see they are testing their fairing separation mechanism...

 

[SiberianTiger]

I wonder what NK has to say about this...

I don't know, I can hardly apply for the job of Kim's speechwriter. Whenever I read http://naenara.kp/en/ I'm discovering many English words quite new for me... :rofl:

 

[Ark]

The irony of North Korea being threatened with nuclear war for testing a rocket (no, wait, in North Korea it's a "missile") and South Korea being applauded for it is not lost on me.

 

[SiberianTiger]

The irony of North Korea being threatened with nuclear war for testing a rocket (no, wait, in North Korea it's a "missile") and South Korea being applauded for it is not lost on me.

Have you ever seen what was under Unha's payload fairing?

BTW, who did threaten North Korea with nuclear war for testing a rocket? Can you quote a link, please?

 

[Ark]

Have you ever seen what was under Unha's payload fairing?

BTW, who did threaten North Korea with nuclear war for testing a rocket? Can you quote a link, please?

http://turnerradionetwork.blogspot.com/2009/05/north-korea-to-be-attacked-us-nuclear.html

Okay, okay, so WE didn't threaten NK with nuclear war, just our buddy Hal Turner. :lol:

 

[SiberianTiger]

http://turnerradionetwork.blogspot.com/2009/05/north-korea-to-be-attacked-us-nuclear.html

Okay, okay, so WE didn't threaten NK with nuclear war, just our buddy Hal Turner. :lol:

It is expected the war will be over within one or two days. Korea will be reunited. It's Capitol will be Seoul and its government will be democratically elected.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

A good laugh, but I urge you to carry over the NK-related stuff to any of the NK-related threads, please.

 

[Andy44]

Moral relativism is very unfashionable. Especially when there is no basis in fact for it.

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I like the look of their control center at 3:50 of the video. Looks like a very large, nice modern room. Almost like something from a James Bond movie.

 

[SiberianTiger]

I like the look of their control center at 3:50 of the video. Looks like a very large, nice modern room. Almost like something from a James Bond movie.

Well, to be honest, exactly at 3:50 it is a clip-cut from the North Korean footage about their Unha-2 launch and it is not their, but THEIR control room. It is large for sure, a bit of oversize for their space programme yet, even.

I'm really sorry for inadverently making fun of you...

 

[Andy44]

Well, to be honest, exactly at 3:50 it is a clip-cut from the North Korean footage about their Unha-2 launch and it is not their, but THEIR control room. It is large for sure, a bit of oversize for their space programme yet, even.

I'm really sorry for inadverently making fun of you...

Well, even better then, since it looks like a bad guy's control room in a James Bond film!

 

[SiberianTiger]

http://www.khrunichev.ru/main.php?id=1&nid=1131

Khrunichev Space Centre has readied the first stage of the Korean LV to be shipped over

Khrunichev Space Centre (Moscow) has finished all works of the first flight-ready production item for the KSLV-1, the first South Korean space launch vehicle.

In the evening, June 13, the rocket stage was sent to Ulyanovsk by a cargo train. The next step will be transporting it from Ulyanovsk to the port city of Pusan by air; after that, it will be shipped to Naro space centre by a sea freighter.

The whole KSLV-1 launcher will be able to put a 100 kg payload to a Low Earth Orbit 300x1500 km. The full length of the rocket is 33 m, core diameter 2.9 m and the overall fueled mass is 140 tonnes.

Khrunichev Space Centre's participation in the South Korean space programme is not limited to KSLV's producing. In July, 2006 Khrunichev Centre's rocket Rokot successfully put into orbit Korean KOMPSAT-2 satellite.

 

[SiberianTiger]

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/07/16/200907160047.asp

Researchers are putting the final touches on the launch of Korea's first space rocket scheduled for July 30.


Naro, or Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1, will carry a domestically-built experimental satellite into a low earth orbit.


It will be fired at the Naro Space Center, the country's first space launch site, between 4:40 p.m. and 6:40 p.m., weather permitting.


A successful launch would make Korea the 10th country to send up a satellite of its own making from its territory.

 

[doggie015]

http://www.domain-b.com/aero/space/launch_veh/20090603_kslv_1.html

The contract to design and build a Space Rocket Complex with a small-lift Launch Vehicle KSLV 1 and the launch complex was signed in Seoul on October 26, 2004 between Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and Khrunichev Space Centre (KhSC), Energomash Research and Production Association and Design Bureau for Transport Engineering (KBTM) from Russian side (http://www.khrunichev.ru/main.php?id=73&hl=kslv).

The booster stage is identical to the one which is to become the 1st stage booster of Russian Angara launch vehicle and will effectively be the first real use of the technology.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzz4aXbUuGM

And we are threating North korea for developing something with less that 1/10th of the power of this because it is not a democracy?

 

[BHawthorne]

And we are threating North korea for developing something with less that 1/10th of the power of this because it is not a democracy?

No...we are threatening North Korea for developing something with less than 1/10th of the power because it's run by a raving lunatic that likes play with nuclear warheads. Grown ups don't like their children play with dangerous toys, and someone needs to counter children like North Korea and spank them for being naughty.

 

[Star Voyager]

Democratic (as in democracy, not Daddy Obama) capitalism fights back! Yes!

 

[doggie015]

No...we are threatening North Korea for developing something with less than 1/10th of the power because it's run by a raving lunatic that likes play with nuclear warheads. Grown ups don't like their children play with dangerous toys, and someone needs to counter children like North Korea and spank them for being naughty.

and who says South Korea won't pop a thermonuclear warhead onto this one huh?

 

[BHawthorne]

and who says South Korea won't pop a thermonuclear warhead onto this one huh?

Russia says, considering they're the engineers doing this launch. Your trolling is weak.

 

[Notebook]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8208387.stm

South Korea halts rocket launch

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