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KSLV-I Naro
Also known as Korea Space Launch Vehicle I, KSLV-I, Naro
Naro-1 (), previously designated the Korea Space Launch Vehicle or KSLV (also KSLV-1), was South Korea's first carrier rocket, and the first South Korean launch vehicle to achieve Earth orbit. On 30 January 2013, the third Naro-1 vehicle built successfully placed STSAT-2C into low Earth orbit.
Key facts
- Rocket.name
- Naro나로호
- Rocket.image
- 나로호(KSLV-I) 발사 장면 (12).jpg
- Rocket.caption
- Naro lifts off from the Launch Pad 1 at Naro Space Center, 25 August 2009.
- Rocket.function
- Launch vehicle
- Rocket.manufacturer
- Khrunichev (first stage)KARI (second stage)
- Rocket.pcost
- ₩ 520.5 billion; US$460 million
- Rocket.height
- 33 m
- Rocket.alt height
- 108 ft
- Rocket.diameter
- 3 m
- Rocket.alt diameter
- 9.9 ft
- Rocket.mass
- 140,000 kg
- Rocket.alt mass
- 300,000 lb
Article
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Impediments to South Korean rocket development
- Vehicle description
- Launch history
- First flight
- Second flight
- Third flight
- Previous launch history for the third flight
- Political impact
- Comparable rockets
- See also
- References
- External links
Naro-1 (), previously designated the Korea Space Launch Vehicle or KSLV (also KSLV-1), was South Korea's first carrier rocket, and the first South Korean launch vehicle to achieve Earth orbit. On 30 January 2013, the third Naro-1 vehicle built successfully placed STSAT-2C into low Earth orbit.
The first stage was a modified Russian Angara (Russian: Ангара) URM. The solid-fuel second stage was built by KARI, the national space agency of South Korea, and Korean Air.