S. Korea joins club of rocket-developing nations as homegrown Nuri rocket successfully launched - YouTube

South Korea has successfully launched its homegrown Nuri carrier rocket from the Naro Space Center in the southern coastal village of Goheung at 4:00 p.m. local time on June 21. Later that day, South Korean Science Minister Lee Jong-ho confirmed at a briefing that the rocket has deployed its payload at a planned altitude at 700 km above Earth, including a performance verification satellite, which then successfully reached its orbit. South Korea now joins Russia, US, France, China, Japan and India as the seventh country in the world to have developed its own space launch vehicle capable of sending at least one ton of payload into orbit.