South Korea’s first rocket carrying an observation satellite blasts off from launch pad

September 23rd, 2009 SRIHARIKOTA - India successfully launched its 16th remote-sensing satellite Oceansat-2 and six small Europeans satellites on board a rocket that blasted off from here at 11.51 a.m. Wednesday. The 44.4-metre tall, 230-tonne Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) freed itself from the launch pad at the spaceport and lifted itself up, lugging the 960-kg Oceansat-2 and the six nano satellites all together weighing 20 kg.

August 25th, 2009 S. Korean satellite fails to enter intended orbitGOHEUNG, South Korea — An official says South Korea's first rocket launch has developed a problem after liftoff. Science and Education Minister Ahn Byong-man said Tuesday that an initial investigation shows the satellite the rocket was carrying apparently failed to enter its intended orbit.

August 25th, 2009 SKorea launches 1st rocket, satellite misses orbitGOHEUNG, South Korea — South Korea launched its first rocket Tuesday, just months after rival North Korea's launch drew international anger, but space officials said the satellite it carried failed to enter its intended orbit. A Science Ministry statement called the launch a "partial success," as the satellite separated from the rocket normally before entering a different orbit.

August 25th, 2009 South Korea launches first rocket into spaceGOHEUNG, South Korea — South Korea's first rocket blasted off into space Tuesday following an aborted attempt last week and just months after its rival North Korea drew international ire for its own launch. A problem quickly surfaced, however, when space officials said that an initial investigation showed that the satellite the rocket was carrying apparently failed to enter its intended orbit.

August 18th, 2009 SKorea to launch 1st rocket; eyes on NK responseSEOUL, South Korea — South Korea prepared Tuesday to launch its first rocket, just four months after rival North Korea defiantly launched its own and quickly was slapped with U.N. sanctions. The North has warned it would closely watch the international response to South Korea's launch Wednesday.

August 10th, 2009 NKorea closely watching SKorea's rocket launchSEOUL, South Korea —North Korea said Monday it will closely watch the international response to South Korea's planned satellite launch after Pyongyang was brought before the U.N. Security Council for what it said was a similar move.

July 15th, 2009 Calif.-based SpaceX launches Malaysia satelliteHAWTHORNE, Calif. — Rocket developer Space Exploration Technologies said Tuesday it conducted its second fully successful launch, placing a Malaysian satellite into orbit.

May 6th, 2009 Missile defense satellite launched from CaliforniaVANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Department of Defense officials say an experimental satellite for the U.S.

April 12th, 2009 NEW YORK - The world powers have agreed on a UN Security Council draft statement condemning North Korea's rocket launch, diplomats said Sunday. The five permanent members of the council and Japan agreed Saturday to the draft statement seen as a compromise between the supporters of tough measures against North Korea and restrained response to the communist regime's rocket launch.

April 6th, 2009 SEOUL/WASHINGTON - Media reports in the US and South Korea said Sunday that North Korea had failed to place a satellite into orbit with its rocket launching earlier in the day. The news network CNN, citing the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD), reported that the North Korean satellite failed to achieve orbit.

April 5th, 2009 TOKYO - North Korea launched a rocket Sunday, a South Korean foreign ministry official told Yonhap news agency. Pyongyang said it was putting a communications satellite into orbit, but Japan, South Korea and Washington believe the launch was a screen to test a long-range ballistic missile.

April 3rd, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea has begun final preparations for its controversial long-range rocket launch and could fire the weapon as early as Saturday, South Korean media reported Friday. 'North Korea seems to have almost finished fuelling the rocket, so it is highly likely it will launch it,' The Korea Times quoted an anonymous government official as saying.

March 29th, 2009 PYONGYANG - A Japanese newspaper has claimed that missile experts from Iran are currently in North Korea to supervise Pyongyang's rocket launch. Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper has claimed that a 15-membered delegation from Tehran is in the country, advising the North Koreans since the beginning of March.

March 12th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea informed an international shipping organisation that it intends to launch a satellite at the beginning of April, South Korean media reported Thursday. The International Maritime Organisation was told that the carrier rocket of the Kwangmyongson-2 satellite would be fired between April 4 and 8, the Yonhap News Agency reported, citing intelligence sources.

February 24th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea said Tuesday that it was preparing to launch a satellite on a domestically produced rocket after weeks of intelligence reports that said it was instead readying a test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. A date for the launch was not given in the statement by the Korea Space Technology Committee published by the official Korean Central News Agency.