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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
00:49:46
Wednesday December 12, 2012
First success of a North Korean rocket. North Korea becomes the 10th world space power.
North Korea claims the satellite would estimate crop yields and collect weather data as well as assess the country's forest coverage and natural resources. The country also claims that the satellite weighed about 100 kg and that its planned lifetime was about two years.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
100 kilograms
2nd
Mission
2nd
Mission of 2012
4th
Mission
2nd
Mission of 2012
75th
Orbital launch attempt