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Launch Failure
Liftoff Time (GMT)
03:07:00
Monday August 31, 1998
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 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
Agency
KCSTRocket
Height: 24m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 20 kg
GTO: 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust
280 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 0.88m
Height: 3.1m
Stages
3
1st
Mission
1st
Mission of 1998
1st
Mission
2nd
Mission of 1998
54th
Orbital launch attempt