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Danuri captures before-and-after images of Falcon 9 debris impact

Korea’s lunar orbiter photographed a spent Falcon 9 stage before and after it struck the moon, offering scientists an unusually close record of surface changes.

2026.8.6

Korea's Danuri orbiter successfully films moon collision of SpaceX rocket

Korea's space agency said that the latest observation marks a major examination of the entire process of a man-made object's collision with the moon's surface from lunar orbit.

2026.8.6

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Korea's homegrown space rocket Nuri is seen being transported to its launch pad inside the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Jeolla on Nov. 25. [KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE]

Nuri's first nighttime launch set for 12:55 a.m. Thursday

Korea's homegrown Nuri rocket will blast off at 12:55 a.m. on Thursday from Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Jeolla, the Korea AeroSpace Administration announced late Wednesday.

2025.11.26

Ready for launch

The Nuri space rocket stands upright on its launch pad at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Jeolla, on Nov. 25.

2025.11.25

Korea's homegrown space rocket Nuri blasts off from Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Jeolla on June 21, 2022. [YONHAP]

Hanwha Aerospace to receive Nuri rocket technologies in landmark deal

Hanwha Aerospace said Friday it has signed a 24 billion-won ($17.5 million) contract to acquire technologies related to the homegrown Nuri space rocket from the state-run Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI).

2025.7.25

View of Earth taken from Danuri, Korea’s first lunar orbiter, on Dec. 28 after successfully entering the targeted orbit around the moon last month. According to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, the orbiter took the picture from 124 kilometers above the moon. KARI became the seventh space agency to put a satellite into orbit around the moon, following those of Russia, the United States, Japan, the European Union, China and India. [KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE]

Hello, Earth!

View of Earth taken from Danuri, Korea’s first lunar orbiter, on Christmas Eve after successfully entering the targeted orbit around the moon last month.

2023.1.3

SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle takes off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, on Aug. 4. [SPACEX]

Danuri enters target orbit around moon, early and in good form

With the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter — the spacecraft's formal name — successfully reaching mission orbit, Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) became the seventh space agency to put a satellite into orbit around the moon.

2022.12.28

[Editorial] Fix the division in the space research institute

The presidential office and government must referee so that the country’s space vision is not affected by internal affairs.

2022.12.26

Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) researchers monitor the Danuri moon orbiter at a ground control center at KARI headquarters in Daejeon, on Tuesday. Danuri, Korea's first lunar orbiter, was launched on Aug. 5 and is expected to reach the targeted lunar orbit on Dec. 16. [JOONGANG ILBO]

Eyes on the moon

Danuri, Korea's first lunar orbiter, was launched on Aug. 5 and is expected to reach the targeted lunar orbit on Dec. 16.

2022.8.25

Han Young-min, who developed the liquid-fuel engines for Korea's first domestically-developed rocket Nuri (KSLV-II), poses in front of the first stage engine of Nuri at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute in Daejeon on June 24. [KIM SUNG-TAE]

Nuri's launch was a bad dream dispelled for this rocket scientist

The JoongAng Ilbo sat down with Han Young-min, the brains behind the engine of Nuri, for an interview at KARI headquarters in Daejeon on June 24, three days after the successful launch of Nuri, whose full name is the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-II.

2022.7.8