North Korea's Unha-2 rocket carried the Kwangmyongsong-2 satellite from the Tonghae launch site; Pyongyang claimed successful orbital insertion, but U.S. Northern Command tracking found no object reached orbit after the third stage failed to separate properly.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Unha-2 flight
- Date and time
- 5 April 2009, 02:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Unha-2
- Builder
- NADA
- Launch site
- Satellite Launch Pad, Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground
- Payload
- Test Flight
- Launches in 2009
- 19th of 78