South Korea’s Nuri rocket has flown for the fourth time ever.<\/p>\n
The homegrown Nuri<\/a> lifted off from Naro Space Center today (Nov. 26) at 11:13 a.m. EST (1613 GMT; 0113 on Nov. 27 Korea Standard Time).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The 155-foot-tall (47 meters) rocket carried an Earth-observation satellite called CAS500-3 and a dozen ride-along cubesats<\/a> to orbit.<\/p>\n Best picks for you<\/p>\n If all goes to plan, CAS500-3 (“Compact Advanced Satellite 500 3)” will be deployed into a sun-synchronous orbit 373 miles (600 kilometers) above Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n Once it’s up and running, the 1,100-pound (500 kilograms) satellite will study our planet’s auroras<\/a> and another atmospheric phenomenon known as airglow<\/a>. CAS500-3 will also measure magnetic fields and plasma, according to a statement<\/a> from the Korea Aerospace Administration (KASA), which was established in May 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 12 rideshare cubesats were provided by a range of companies and academic and research institutions and will perform a variety of tasks in orbit.<\/p>\n The three-stage Nuri is the first fully indigenous South Korean orbital rocket. A previous launcher, called Naro-1<\/a>, reached orbit but employed a modified Russian Angara rocket as its first stage.<\/p>\n Nuri failed during its debut flight in October 2021 but bounced back with two consecutive successes, in June 2022<\/a> and May 2023<\/a>. Today’s launch continued that streak, and was special in other ways as well.<\/p>\n “The fourth launch of Nuri is significant because it is the first launch since the establishment of the KASA and the first launch in which a system-integration company took charge of the overall production and assembly of launch vehicle components and jointly participated in launch operations,” KASA Administrator Yoon Young-bin said in the same statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korea’s Nuri rocket has flown for the fourth time ever. The homegrown Nuri lifted off from Naro…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-284771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}