“The third stage’s engine was supposed to burn for 521 seconds, but it stopped burning at 475 seconds,” said Minister of Science and ICT Lim Hye-sook. The deployment failure was due to shorter than expected burning of the rocket’s third-stage’s engine. Praising all the staff who contributed to the rocket’s development, the president said, “If we fix shortcomings discovered today, we will be able to make a second launch slated for May next year a success.” “But putting a payload on an intended orbit has remained as a mission unaccomplished.” All happened with our own technologies,” Moon said. “Everything from liftoff to payload deployment unfolded smoothly. The announcement was made one hour and twenty minutes after the launch. “Shooting a rocket to the height of 700 kilometers itself is a great achievement. Eastern, carrying a 1.5-ton dummy payload. Regrettably, it didn’t reach the goal it aimed at,” President Moon Jae-in announced at Naro Space Center in Goheung, where the kerosene-fueled, three-stage KSLV-2, also known as Nuri, lifted off at 4 a.m.
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