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South Korea's first lunar orbiter launched by SpaceX
Agence France-Presse
last updated:
Aug 05,2022
South Korea's first lunar orbiter 'Danuri' successfully launched on a year-long mission to observe the Moon. (Photo: AFP)
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South Korea's first-ever lunar orbiter was launched Thursday from the United States, live video showed, with a payload including a new disruption-tolerant network for sending data from space on its year-long mission to observe the Moon.اضافة اعلان
Danuri -- a portmanteau of the Korean words for "Moon" and "enjoy" -- was carried on a Falcon 9 rocket launched by US aerospace company SpaceX and aims to reach the Moon by mid-December.