North Korea's first attempted satellite launch, using the three-stage Paektusan (Taepodong-1) rocket from Musudan-ri; Pyongyang claimed the Kwangmyongsong-1 satellite reached orbit, but no object was ever tracked and the third stage is assessed to have failed.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Paektusan 1 flight
- Date and time
- 31 August 1998, 03:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Paektusan 1
- Builder
- KCST
- Launch site
- Satellite Launch Pad, Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground
- Payload
- Test Flight
- Launches in 1998
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