Third flight and first operational mission of South Korea's homegrown Nuri (KSLV-2) rocket, deploying the NEXTSat-2 X-band radar demonstrator plus four SNIPE CubeSats and three other small satellites to sun-synchronous orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 236 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 5 KSLV-2 Nuri flights
- Date and time
- 25 May 2023, 09:24 UTC
- Rocket
- KSLV-2 Nuri
- Builder
- KAI / Hanwha Aerospace
- Launch site
- LC-2, Naro Space Center, South Korea
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2023-072
- Launches in 2023
- 78th of 223
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