KSLV-1 "Naro-1" Second Test Flight EXPLODED after lift off (HD)

June 10, 2010 - Naro Space Center.
The Korea Space Launch Vehicle, or KSLV 1, blasted off from the Naro Space Center at 0801 GMT (4:01 a.m. EDT), or at 5:01 p.m. local time. The rocket flew through a nearly transparent deck of clouds about a minute after liftoff.
Live video from the space center showed no signs of any problems during the early moments of the launch, but officials with the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) say they lost contact with the rocket 137 seconds into the flight.
At that point, the booster should have been flying between 40 and 50 miles in altitude on the power of a Russian first stage built by Khrunichev, the contractor in charge of the workhorse Proton launcher.
Some Korean news reports say the rocket appears to have exploded and crashed as controllers lost communications with the booster.
Nearly 375,000 pounds of thrust from the Russian-made first stage RD-151 engine was supposed to propel the 108-foot-tall rocket more than 100 miles above the East China Sea in less than four minutes. The KSLV's nose cone was expected to separate 215 seconds after liftoff.
Khrunichev built the kerosene-burning first stage and lended expertise in construction of the Naro launch pad and control center under a 2004 contract signed with KARI.
After pulling free of the first stage, the Korean second stage was programmed to coast for nearly three minutes before firing its solid motor for a 58-second burn to inject the flight's 219-pound payload into orbit.
The launch was carrying the STSAT-2B satellite with instruments to observe Earth and a laser reflector to help engineers track the craft's orbit. The rocket was targeting an orbit ranging in altitude from 186 miles to 932 miles, according to KARI.
The rocket is nicknamed the Naro 1 after its launch site.
South Korea has invested more than $400 million into the Naro rocket project.
The flight was delayed one day after the launch pad's fire suppresion system unexpectedly activated during a countdown Wednesday.
It was the second KSLV launch from the new space center, which was built 300 miles south of Seoul in the South Jeolla province near the southwestern tip of the Korean peninsula.

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[joujimiumiu]

Expensive fireworks

[EGoksy]

somehow i can't see it explodes ... they stop showing the rocket after 2min 10s (130s) and repeat video from launch position

somehow .. i don't think that it exploded ... i think they may fooled everyone to think that its gone :)

[gunitinug]

umm... i read that largest engine for 1st stage is secret technology. korea has problem making their own 1st stage rocket engine

[SPB2011able]

Korea learned a lot from these two trials

and also we have already owned most technology to launch spaceship.

In 3 years you can see new spaceship made by Korea.

But next year, we will launch this same rocket for test again

wait..we don't hurry..

[SPB2011able]

Korea learned a lot from these two trials

and also we have already owned most technology to launch spaceship.

In 3 years you can see new spaceship made by Korea.

But next year, we will launch this same rocket for test again

wait..we don't hurry..

[fuckyorutube]

cool rocket

[z26837129]

高丽棒子步是发明了神机箭吗

怎麽火箭还会掉下来

哈哈哈

泡菜吃多了吃坏脑子了

[Nonghyupful]

So funny that Korea can't even launch a rocket. This is 50 year old technology. "Global Korea!" LOLOL.

[yogananda1893]

kimchi

[giranful]

To Gmove02; Yes I am totally agree with you. The world hates Kores. They are arrogant, having no morals, never apologize, always lies, copy others, stinks like rotten cabbage..etc..

Stupid Kores claiming Japan Sea is east sea..lol So uneducated and shameless...The entire world calls it 'Japan Sea' except South and North Korea..

Koreans are an outcast of the world.