Unha

Active

Korean Committee of Space Technology (KCST)

April 5, 2009

Description

Specifications
  • Length
  • Diameter
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    Unha
  • Family
  • Variant
    Unha
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Unha
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Korean Committee of Space Technology

Government
None
KCST

The Korean Committee of Space Technology was the agency of the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) responsible for the country's space program. The agency was terminated and succeeded by the National Aerospace Development Administration in 2013 after the Law on Space Development was passed in the 7th session of the 12th Supreme People's Assembly.

Unha | Kwangmyongsong-4

Korean Committee of Space Technology | North Korea
Sohae Satellite Launching Station, Cholsan County, North Pyongan Province, Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Part of North Korea’s Kwangmyongsong (Bright Star) programme, the experimental satellite will attempt to reach orbit.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Korean Committee of Space Technology | North Korea
Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground
April 5, 2009, 2:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Second North Korean attempt to launch a satellite into orbit. It was lost in a failure of the Unha-2 launch vehicle.

Low Earth Orbit
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