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South Korea’s first homegrown spacecraft Nuri blasts off | South China Morning Post

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South Korea’s first domestically built rocket blasted off on October 21, 2021, but failed to deliver a dummy payload into orbit. Nuri, or “world” in Korean, was part of the country’s broader space plans, which include launching a range of military satellites.

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