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South Korea test launches homegrown missile

21 June 2022
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2022-06-21 15:00

South Korea launched its first domestically built space rocket on Tuesday in the country's second such attempt, months after its earlier liftoff failed to place a dummy payload into orbit.

The three-stage Nuri rocket carrying what officials call a functioning "performance verification" satellite blasted from South Korea's only space launch center on a small island off its southern coast.

The launch would boost South Korea's growing space ambitions but also prove it has key technologies needed to build a space-based surveillance system and bigger missiles amid animosities with rival North Korea.

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