Kwangmyŏngsŏng 1

Launch Failure

Liftoff Time (GMT)

03:07:00

Monday August 31, 1998

Mission Details

Launch Notes

First, and last flight of Taepodong-1. First North Korean orbital launch. The third stage didn't separate from the second, the launcher fell back over Japan.

Kwangmyŏngsŏng 1

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Kwangmyŏngsŏng 1 was a satellite allegedly launched by North Korea on 31 August 1998. While the North Korean government claimed that the launch was successful, no objects were ever tracked in orbit from the launch, and outside North Korea it is considered to have been a failure. It was the first satellite to be launched as part of the Kwangmyŏngsŏng program, and the first satellite that North Korea attempted to launch.

Low Earth Orbit

1 Payload

30 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Taepodong 1

Active in 1998

Korean Committee of Space Technology logo

Agency

KCST

Rocket

Height: 24m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 20 kg

GTO: 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust

280 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 0.88m

Height: 3.1m

Stages

3

Launch Site

Pad 1

Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground, North Korea

Fastest Turnaround

3,869 days

Stats

Taepodong 1


1st

Mission

1st

Mission of 1998

Korean Committee of Space Technology


1st

Mission

2nd

Mission of 1998

1998


54th

Orbital launch attempt