SpaceX Launches South Korea’s 2nd Spy Satellite Amid Race With North

Published on April 8, 2024

SEOUL—South Korea’s defense ministry said on Monday the country’s second homegrown spy satellite had entered orbit after its launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch, which comes after Seoul’s first spy satellite was put into orbit from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base in December, was livestreamed on social media platforms X and YouTube. The Falcon 9 rocket was launched at 2317 GMT on Sunday and the satellite successfully separated from the launch vehicle 45 minutes later and entered its targeted orbit, the ministry said in a statement. It made successful communications with a ground station about two hours and 40 minutes after the launch, the ministry added....

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