#[1]alternate [2]South Korea’s First Homemade Rocket Lifts Off but Is ‘One Step Short’ (BUTTON) (BUTTON) Sections (BUTTON) SEARCH [3]Skip to content[4]Skip to site index [5]Asia Pacific (BUTTON) [6]Today’s Paper [7]Asia Pacific|South Korea’s First Homemade Rocket Lifts Off but Is ‘One Step Short’ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/world/asia/south-korea-rocket.html * * * * * (BUTTON) * * (BUTTON) Give this article * (BUTTON) Share * (BUTTON) * Advertisement [8]Continue reading the main story Supported by [9]Continue reading the main story South Korea’s First Homemade Rocket Lifts Off but Is ‘One Step Short’ The country aspires to be a leader in space technology, with plans to land an uncrewed craft on the moon by 2030. President Moon Jae-in said the initial launch was excellent “for a first try.” * * * * * (BUTTON) * * (BUTTON) Read in app * Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. (BUTTON) (BUTTON) Give this article * (BUTTON) Share * (BUTTON) * * (BUTTON) Read in app Video Video player loading South Korea’s Aerospace Research Institute launched its first homemade rocket on Thursday. The mission was only partly successful, but officials called it an important step toward ​placing domestically made satellites in orbit.CreditCredit...Pool photo by Associated Press [10]Choe Sang-Hun By [11]Choe Sang-Hun Oct. 21, 2021 SEOUL — South Korea launched [12]its first homemade rocket on Thursday, a mission that was only partly successful but that officials called an important step toward ​placing domestically made [13]satellites in orbit to better monitor growing threats from North Korea. The three-stage [14]Nuri rocket, built by the government’s Korea Aerospace Research Institute with the help of hundreds of local companies, lifted off from the Naro Space Center in Goheung, on the southwestern tip of South Korea. The rocket carried a 1.5-ton dummy payload to test its ability to thrust an artificial satellite into orbit 373 to 497 miles above the Earth. A little more than an hour after the takeoff, President Moon Jae-in said the launching “did not reach its goal completely” but showed “excellent results for a first try.” He said Nuri pushed its payload to space 434 miles above the Earth but the mission was “incomplete.” Officials said that the third stage of the rocket burned out sooner than planned, failing to give the dummy satellite enough speed to stabilize and stay in orbit. “We were just one step short of reaching our goal,” Mr. Moon said during a news conference, urging engineers to make the next launch, scheduled for May, “a complete success.” The launch on Thursday was broadcast live on all major TV stations and on internet streaming platforms like [15]YouTube. Mr. Moon’s government had billed the launch as a giant step forward in South Korea’s effort to become a new leader in space technology. South Korea has nurtured a decades-long ambition to join the elite club of nations building rockets capable of placing communications, surveillance and other satellites in orbit. After multiple delays and failures, South Korea’s Naro rocket succeeded in [16]putting a satellite in orbit for research and development purposes in 2013. But unlike Nuri, the rocket launched on Thursday using domestic technology, Naro was built jointly with Russia. Image Waiting to watch the launch of Nuri. With its own rocket capabilities, South Korea says it hopes to build satellite-based navigation and next-generation communications networks. Waiting to watch the launch of Nuri. With its own rocket capabilities, South Korea says it hopes to build satellite-based navigation and next-generation communications networks.Credit...Chun Jung-In/Yonhap, via Associated Press South Korea has spent nearly $1.7 billion to build the 200-ton Nuri, also known as the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-II. It planned to conduct several more trial launches of the Nuri system, including one scheduled for May. With Nuri, South Korea has hoped to secure a foothold in [17]space technology, the latest high-tech market where the country has decided to become a player. Most rocket launches around the world have been carried out by the United States, Russia, France, China, Japan and India. South Korea plans to send a moon orbiter next fall aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX, the company founded by Elon Musk. Mr. Moon has said that his country expects to be able to land an uncrewed spacecraft on the moon using South Korean rockets by 2030. With its own rocket capabilities, South Korea says it hopes to build satellite-based navigation and next-generation communications networks. It also wants to carve out a portion of the world’s satellite-launching market, an increasingly crowded field as major industrialized countries jostle to build their own domestic programs. The Nuri launch also reflected South Korea’s desire to be less dependent on United States forces to monitor North Korea, as well as its goal of regaining [18]wartime operational control of its 550,000-member military. Under a bilateral agreement with Washington, South Korean troops fall under the command of an American general should war break out on the Korean Peninsula. The Significance of North Korea’s Missile Tests __________________________________________________________________ Card 1 of 5 An increase in activity. In recent months, North Korea has conducted several missile tests, hinting at an increasingly defiant attitude toward countries that oppose [19]its growing military arsenal. Here’s what to know: U.N. resolutions. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula started rising in 2017, when North Korea tested three intercontinental ballistic missiles and conducted a nuclear test. The United Nations [20]imposed [21]sanctions, and Pyongyang stopped testing nuclear and long-range missiles for a time. Failed diplomacy. Former President Donald Trump [22]met with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, [23]three times between 2018 and [24]2019, hoping to reach a deal on North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs. [25]After the talks broke down, North Korea resumed missile testing. An escalation. North Korea started [26]a new round of testing in September​ after a six-month hiatus. It has since completed [27]several missile tests, including the firing of two ballistic missiles on Jan. 14, that violated the 2017 U.N. resolutions. The U.S. response. Washington is proposing new U.N. sanctions on North Korea. The country, which insists it is exercising its right to self-defense, [28]issued a statement shortly before the tests on Jan. 14 denouncing the proposal. * * * * * South Korea has no military spy satellites of its own, relying instead on United States satellites to watch the North. Placing its own “eyes and ears” in space became more urgent as North Korea’s nuclear and missile capabilities expanded​ over the years and after President Donald J. Trump threatened to withdraw American troops​ in South Korea. Image Nuri, South Korea’s first homegrown space rocket, being transported out of the assembly building to a launch pad.Credit...Lee Hyo-Kyun/Korea Aerospace Research Institue, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images South Korea placed its first military communications satellite into orbit last July, carried by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket​. North Korea, which has [29]its own rocket program, has criticized the South’s space program​ for its potential military applications​. Space rockets and intercontinental ballistic missiles use similar technologies. North Korea launched [30]satellite space vehicles before it successfully tested three I.C.B.M.s in 2017. The United Nations Security Council banned the North from launching space rockets that were being used as tests for the country’s long-range ballistic missile program. South Korea’s space ambitions have been hamstrung for years by agreements with the United States. American officials feared that a robust South Korean rocket program would lead the country to build missiles, accelerating a regional arms race. But last year, Washington and Seoul agreed to remove some of the restrictions, allowing South Korea to build solid-fuel rockets for space-launch vehicles. Solid-fuel rockets are more cost-effective than liquid-fuel rockets like Nuri. They are also ideal for long-range ballistic missiles because they are easier to transport and prepare for launch. North Korea has accused the South of hypocrisy for expanding its own weapons capabilities while criticizing the North’s. Image South Korea has nurtured a decades-long ambition to join the elite club of nations with the advanced capabilities to launch satellites. 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