Maiden flight of South Korea's Naro-1 (KSLV-1), carrying the STSAT-2A satellite from Naro Space Center. The payload fairing failed to fully separate, and the added weight sent the rocket off course; STSAT-2A failed to reach orbit and reentered.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 3 KSLV Naro-1 flights
- Date and time
- 25 August 2009, 08:00 UTC
- Rocket
- KSLV Naro-1
- Builder
- KARI / Khrunichev
- Launch site
- LC-1, Naro Space Center, South Korea
- Payload
- Test Flight
- Launches in 2009
- 47th of 78