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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

Researchers applaud the launch of the Arirang 7 multipurpose satellite at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s satellite control room in Daejeon on Dec. 2. [KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE]

Korea sends new homegrown multipurpose satellite Arirang 7 into orbit

Korea sent a new homegrown multipurpose satellite into orbit early on Tuesday, setting the stage for high-resolution observations of the peninsula.

2025.12.2

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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

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

Space vision

President Yoon Suk-yeol speaks during a meeting with researchers and industry officials at the Space Economy Vision declaration ceremony, held at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute in Daejeon on Wednesday.

2022.7.6

The Korea Space Launch Vehicle-II, or Nuri, takes off from the Naro Space Center in Goheung County, South Jeolla, on June 21. [KARI]

[ANALYSIS] Korea made it to space, but where does that take it?

Korea blasted satellites into orbit using its own rocket, becoming the seventh member of the exclusive club of space nations. But analysts warn that's just the beginning of a long journey, not the end.

2022.6.29

Korea Space Launch Vehicle-II, or Nuri, takes off from the Naro Space Center in Goheung County, South Jeolla, Tuesday. [MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND ICT]

Korea enters space club with successful launch of Nuri

With the successful launch of the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-II (KSLV-II), named Nuri, Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) became the seventh space agency to succeed in putting a satellite weighing more than 1 ton into space.

2022.6.21