South Korea to launch Nuri missile on May 25
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South Korea intends to conduct a third launch of the Nuri rocket on May 2 at 18:24 local time (12:24 Moscow time). The Yonhap agency wrote about this, referring to the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology of the Republic of Korea.
The Korean authorities managed to resolve a technical problem that led to the cancellation of the launch on May 24, 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.”
The rocket will launch a small NEXTSat-2 satellite and seven cubesats.
Nuri is a three-stage launch vehicle being developed in South Korea, the successor to the 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 Russian-made first stage).
The South Korean government has taken SpaceX rockets as a role model, seeking to develop relatively cheap and reliable vehicles that are competitive enough for the commercial launch market.
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