South Korea intends to launch its third Nuri rocket on May 2 at 18:24 local time (12:24 Moscow time). Yonhap News Agency wrote about this, citing the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology of the Republic of Korea.
Korean authorities managed to solve a technical problem that led to the cancellation of the launch on May 24, a few hours before the scheduled launch.
The day before, First Deputy Minister of Science and Information and Communications Technology Oh Tae-suk explained the postponement of the launch by saying that during preparation for the launch, when checking the low-temperature helium supply valve, “there was a communication error between the launch control computer and the launch pad equipment control computer.”< /p>
The rocket will launch a NEXTSat-2 small satellite and seven cubesats.
Nuri is a three-stage launch vehicle developed in South Korea, the successor to Naro-1 (KSLV-1). The author of the project is the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI). All three stages use engines of our own design, making Nuri the first completely domestic orbital launch vehicle (the predecessor of Naro-1 used the first stage of Russian production).
The South Korean government took SpaceX rockets as a model role models, aiming to develop relatively cheap and reliable vehicles that are competitive enough for the commercial launch market.