Comments on: South Korea’s new Nuri rocket fails during first launch https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/south-koreas-new-nuri-rocket-fails-during-first-launch/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:49:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/south-koreas-new-nuri-rocket-fails-during-first-launch/#comment-1211894 Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:49:40 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=80013#comment-1211894 In reply to David Eastman.

David Eastman: From what I have gathered, it reached orbit but one so low that it has or will very quickly decay and burn up. This I think is what has led to the confusion.

]]> By: David Eastman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/south-koreas-new-nuri-rocket-fails-during-first-launch/#comment-1211890 Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:44:02 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=80013#comment-1211890 The reporting on this has been awful, with some articles saying “didn’t reach orbit” and others saying “reached orbit, but not the correct one.” It looks like the latter answer is correct, and a lot of reporters just not realizing that there is a distinction to be made.

The KSLV-II is an interesting launcher, it looks like they set themselves a design goal of something reasonable for their first launcher, and then made every attempt to keep it simple and cheap. Hopefully they’ll find some good customers for it to support their program going forward to bigger and better things.

]]> By: Mark https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/south-koreas-new-nuri-rocket-fails-during-first-launch/#comment-1211841 Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:41:55 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=80013#comment-1211841 I applaud any and all Space Technology advances from the 12 countries that are part of the Artemis Accords.

Below are the Artemis Countries. I listed them in order from high to low in regards to their present Space Tech capabilities based from what I’ve read here on BtB. Let me know if you would rank differently.

* United States
* Japan
* Republic of Korea
* United Kingdom
* Italy
* Canada
* New Zealand
* Australia
* Ukraine
* Brazil
* UAE
* Luxembourg

Hopefully we’ll see India joining this year also.

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