North Korean Missiles WON, South Korean Rocket Exploded

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North Korean Missiles and Nuclear Warheads always works. Torpedo and Subs also #1.

South Koreans are egoistic lame ducks, always sucker for the US.

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S Korea rocket explodes in seconds
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The South Korea Space Launch Vehicle takes off from the launch pad at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Korea, on Thursday.
South Korea's dreams of joining the world's space club go up in smoke as Seoul's satellite launch vehicle has exploded minutes into its flight.

South Korea's Science and Technology minister Ahn Byong-Man said the rocket seems to have exploded 137 seconds after blast-off at an altitude of 70 kilometers.

"Looking from the bright flash seen on the camera mounted on the tip of the rocket, it appears [the KSLV-1] exploded in flight during the first-stage ignition," said Ahn.

Images show a white trail going down into the ocean.

According to officials, the remnants of the rocket might have crashed 100-kilometers from South Korea into the water.

The 400-million dollar project was designed to monitor climate change.

The failure is a major setback for South Korea's much delayed attempt to join Asia's space race.

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South Korea Rocket Explodes in Blow to Space Ambition (Update1)
June 10, 2010, 6:22 AM EDT
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By Seonjin Cha

June 10 (Bloomberg) -- South Korea failed in its second attempt to launch a research satellite into space using a domestically developed rocket, dealing a blow to the country’s ambition to snare a share of a $250 billion global market.

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute said it lost contact with the 33-meter (108-feet) KSLV-I rocket, or Naro, shortly after it was launched at 5.01 p.m. local time today. The rocket, which was carrying a 100-kilogram research satellite, may have exploded 137 seconds after take-off, Ahn Byong Man, South Korea’s Education, Science and Technology Minister, said.

South Korea had said a successful launch would bring economic benefits of as much as 3 trillion won ($2.4 billion) in the shape of higher value-added exports and a share of the global space-services market. The government has spent 2.25 trillion won since it announced the space program in 1996.

There may be “significant resistance to continuing this costly project after repeated failures,” said Ryoo Chang Kyung, professor of aerospace engineering at Incheon, South Korea-based Inha University. “It’s a huge loss.”

Television footage on YTN TV appeared to show the missile burning up and falling from the sky.

The mission was delayed yesterday hours before the planned take-off time after a fire-extinguishing nozzle malfunctioned. Today’s failure wasn’t caused by the same fault, said Lee Joo Jin, president of the research institute.

Russian Help

During South Korea’s last launch in August 2009, a protective cover failed to properly separate from the STSAT-2 satellite, causing it to overshoot its planned altitude.

The Naro rocket was partly designed by Russia. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute led the project, with collaboration from more than 160 South Korean companies, including Korean Air Lines Co., Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. and Doosan Infracore Co., the agency said on its website.

“We humbly accept today’s result and will find a remedy to continue our efforts at space exploration,” Ahn said. South Korea will investigate the cause of the failure together with the Russian research team, he said.

The nation wants to build a rocket wholly with domestic technology by 2018 and launch a heavier satellite of 1.5 metric tons, the science ministry said on its website. It is also studying whether to join a global initiative to explore the moon, the ministry said.

India completed an $82 million unmanned mission to the moon last August, which ended after scientists lost contact with the Chandrayaan-1 craft. The country’s attempt to launch a 2,220 kilogram GSAT-4 communications satellite failed when the domestically made rocket failed.

--Editors: Ben Richardson, Mark Williams.

To contact the reporter on this story: Bomi Lim in Seoul at [email protected]

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Bill Austin at [email protected]

 

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South Korea Rocket Crashes in Second Straight Failure

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SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean space rocket carrying a scientific satellite exploded two minutes into its flight in the second failure in two tries to put a payload in orbit, dealing a major setback to the country's space program.

The launch had been delayed for a day due to technical glitches. Hopes were running high for its success after the country's first attempt to put a satellite into orbit failed last year due to problems in stage-separation mechanism.

At 137 seconds into the flight, mission control lost contact with the rocket as it would have reached the altitude of 70 km (43.5 miles), Science Minister Ahn Byong-man said.

"Looking from the bright flash seen on the camera mounted on the tip of the rocket, it appears the Naro exploded in flight during the first-stage ignition," Ahn told a briefing.

The failure is a major setback to the country's space program as it tries to build a domestic project that can eventually challenge the far more advanced programs of regional rivals China, Japan and India.

It had enlisted the help of Russia to develop the Naro-1.

The rocket lifted off successfully on its maiden launch in August 2009 but failed to put a scientific satellite into orbit because of problems in stage-separation systems.

South Korea's launch last year riled neighbor North Korea.

Pyongyang said it was unjust for it to be hit with U.N. sanctions for firing off a long-range rocket in April 2009, but regional powers saw the launch as a disguised test of a ballistic missile that violated U.N. measures.

Apart from North Korea, few doubt the South's rocket was for anything but its civilian space program, although experts said it did raise questions about regional security because it could also enhance Seoul's ability to build ballistic missiles.

The Naro-1, also called the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1, was 33 meters (108 ft) long. The two-stage rocket was built at a cost of 502.5 billion won ($450.7 million).

 

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South Korea's Space Rocket Appears To Have Exploded - Minister




SEOUL (AFP)--A South Korean rocket trying to put a satellite into orbit appears to have exploded Thursday less than three minutes after blast-off, the science minister said.

Science and Technology Minister Ahn Byong-man told reporters the Naro-I rocket is thought to have blown up 137 seconds after blast-off, when ground control lost contact with it.

"The Naro appeared to have exploded in flight," Ahn said.

 

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Like Bush's Iraq War, egoistic South Koreans issued FALSE Victory Claim pre-matured.

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10 June 2010,
SEOUL - South Korea’s space rocket carrying a scientific satellite lifted off on Thursday in what is hoped to be the first successful launch after a series of setbacks to the country’s nascent space programme.

The launch followed a temporary halt on Wednesday due to glitches and a failed attempt in August last year, when the rocket lifted off but failed to deploy its payload because of a faulty stage separation mechanism.

 

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S.Korea, Russia probe rocket failure

By Park Chan-Kyong (AFP) – 13 hours ago

SEOUL — South Korean and Russian experts launched an investigation Friday after the fiery failure of the Asian country's latest rocket launch, which some researchers blamed on inadequate testing.

The Naro-1 rocket, which was Russian-made but assembled in South Korea, veered off course and exploded 137 seconds after blast-off on Thursday.

The mishap came after a first rocket failure last year, thwarting South Korea's plans to launch a scientific satellite and setting back its dreams of joining Asia's space race.

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) said the debris fell into the sea, some 470 kilometres (295 miles) south of the Naro Space Centre's launch pad off the southern coast.

KARI on Friday convened a meeting of a joint investigation committee of the two countries to determine the cause of the failure, a spokesman for the Education, Science and Technology Ministry said.

"It went wrong after the first-stage rocket completed two-thirds of its work," KARI research fellow Chae Yeon-Seok told AFP.

Researchers said this was verified by video from a camera mounted on the rocket as well as live TV footage, which both showed a sudden brightening and orange flames of an explosion.

South Korea was trying to join an exclusive club currently numbering nine nations that have put a satellite into orbit using a domestically assembled rocket.

Its first attempt failed last August when fairings on the nose cone of the Naro-1 did not open properly to release the satellite.

"It is very regretful that we were unable to verify whether the faulty aspects that caused last year's failure were properly addressed this time, as we lost the rocket too early in flight," Chae said.

He and other South Korean researchers noted that the Russian rocket was a new vehicle that was still under development and whose performance was not fully tested through flights.

"When we launched the rocket in the first attempt last year, that was the only flight test before this launch. We have not had many chances to verify its credibility," Chae said.

Professor Shim Hyun-Chul of the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology said Russia should take responsibility.

"There have been concerns over the reliability of the rocket as it has not been tested enough," he told Yonhap news agency.

The government put a brave face on the second failure.

"Though we humbly accept the results, we shall not give up on our dream of becoming a space power," Science and Technology Minister Ahn Byong-Man said Thursday.

Plans for a third attempt will be announced after the investigation is completed, he said.

Under its contract with South Korea, Russia is supposed to provide another rocket in case of a failed launch, officials in Seoul said.

South Korea's biggest-selling daily, the Chosun Ilbo, said the country must take heart from the way it rapidly industrialised from modest beginnings.

"We have a long road ahead and the Naro-1 launch is only the first step," it said in an editorial. "When we started shipbuilding and the IT industry, we were also behind others."

South Korea, despite its status as an international economic powerhouse, entered Asia's space race relatively late.

It has previously sent 10 satellites into space using launch vehicles from other countries.

In 2007 the country announced a plan to launch a lunar orbiter by 2020 and to send a probe to the Moon five years after that.

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Fucked up Korean technology & ego.


Warship sank and rockets into the seas.

I am very sure that North Koreans are laughing and rolling on the floors.