South Korea successfully launches its Nuri rocket
The new colonial movement: South Korea today successfully launched its home-built Nuri rocket, placing a test satellite, a dummy satellite, and four university cubesats into orbit.
The government program to build this rocket began in 2010 and cost $616 million, though not all of that money was devoted to the rocket. South Korea’s space agency has four more launches planned through 2027.
This was obviously South Korea’s first launch this year. The leaders in the 2022 launch race thus remain the same:
26 SpaceX
18 China
8 Russia
3 Rocket Lab
3 ULA
American private enterprise now leads China 35 to 18 in the national rankings, and leads the entire world combined 35 to 30.
The new colonial movement: South Korea today successfully launched its home-built Nuri rocket, placing a test satellite, a dummy satellite, and four university cubesats into orbit.
The government program to build this rocket began in 2010 and cost $616 million, though not all of that money was devoted to the rocket. South Korea’s space agency has four more launches planned through 2027.
This was obviously South Korea’s first launch this year. The leaders in the 2022 launch race thus remain the same:
26 SpaceX
18 China
8 Russia
3 Rocket Lab
3 ULA
American private enterprise now leads China 35 to 18 in the national rankings, and leads the entire world combined 35 to 30.