Strong wind postponed S.Korea’s space rocket launch

According to the latest report, due to strong winds, South Korea’s launch vehicle “World” originally scheduled to be launched on June 15 local time had to be delayed to the 16th. “World” is South Korea’s first “completely self-developed” launch vehicle. The entire project took about 12 years and a total investment of nearly 2 trillion won.

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Moreover, this will be the second time South Korea has launched a “World” rocket. On October 21 last year, South Korea successfully launched the “World” rocket from the second launch pad at the Naro Cosmos Center in Heung-gun County, Jeollanam-do, successfully sending a 1.5-ton mass simulation payload into a sun-synchronous orbit about 700 kilometers high.

However, about an hour after the rocket lifted off, South Korea announced that although the World rocket had completed all flight procedures, it had failed to deliver the payload to its intended orbit.

The investigation found that the failure was mainly due to a loosening of the fixings inside the third-stage engine, which caused the helium tank to fall off. Today, World’s relaunch is about a month behind schedule because more time is needed to resolve technical glitches.

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