KSR-3 or KSR-III (Korean Sounding Rocket-3) is South Korean liquid

sounding rocket A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight. The rockets are used to ...

Korea Aerospace Research Institute The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), established in 1989, is the aeronautics and space agency of South Korea. Its main laboratories are located in Daejeon, in the Daedeok Science Town. KARI's vision is to continue building upon indig ...

. It was launched successfully on November 28, 2002, a rocket for scientific surveillance purposes. The first test flight of KSR-III was carried out by the KARI rocketry team from

Anheung Proving Ground Anheung is a launch site for sounding rockets in South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. ...

, reaching an

altitude Altitude or height (also sometimes known as depth) is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object. The exact definition and reference datum varies according to the context ...

of and flying over .

Spec

* Payload: 150 kg *

Apogee An apsis (; ) is the farthest or nearest point in the orbit of a planetary body about its primary body. For example, the apsides of the Earth are called the aphelion and perihelion. General description There are two apsides in any ellip ...

: 42.7 km * Range: 79 km * Thrust: 13 t * Weight: 6.1 t * Diameter: 0.42 m * Length: 13.5 m * Burn time: 53 sec * Launch: November 28, 2002

Spec

See also

References

Further reading