South Korea Launches First Satellite With Homegrown Rocket

DefenseNews: The launch made South Korea the world’s 10th nation to place a satellite into space with its own technology. It was South Korea’s second launch of a Nuri rocket . Seoul: South Korea conducted its first successful satellite launch using a domestically developed rocket on Tuesday, officials said, boosting its growing aerospace ambitions and demonstrating it has key technologies needed to launch spy satellites and build larger missiles amid tensions with rival North Korea.