South Korea's First Rocket Fails To Reach Set Orbit

Matt_dk writes "The first satellite launched by South Korea failed to reach its designated orbit pattern on Tuesday, the NY Times is reporting. The two-staged KSLV-1 rocket, built in cooperation with Russia, failed to deliver the 100-kilogram oceanic and atmospheric research satellite into its target orbit. The rocket was launched from the Naro Space Center, 300 miles south of the capital Seoul. 'The failure to push the satellite into its intended orbit was announced by Ahn Myong-man, the minister of education, science and technology, at a news conference. Mr. Ahn gave no further details. But South Korean news outlets, citing unidentified sources, said the satellite broke away from the rocket about 22 miles farther from the Earth than had been intended.'"

Re:Oh! Oh!

[mooingyak]

In Soviet Russia... ahh... I don't have anything. I best leave it to the professionals.
... the professionals leave it to you?

Re:However

[Greyfox]

Actually I was unaware that S.Korea had rockets. Now I will go to them and demand a tribute of their technology! Hopefully I don't need to remind them that my words are backed by nuclear force!

Re:Oh! Oh!

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia... ahh... I don't have anything. I best leave it to the professionals.

In Korea, Soviet Russia jokes are only for old people.

he the the?

[Jeng]

I'm not a grammar nazi, but please. Misspelling the very first word in the summary? I could see if it was some complex word, but its THE, what next, is someone going to misspell A ?

the the New York Times? It shouldn't be too hard for the mods to do a basic proofread of the summary before posting. Not that correcting the mistakes changes the content, but because correcting the mistakes doesn't change the content.

Re:Oh! Oh!

[forkazoo]

In Soviet Russia... ahh... I don't have anything. I best leave it to the professionals.

In South Korea, people launch rockets into space.
In Russia, rockets launch people into space.

But, I'm sure South Korea will eventually also develop man-rated space equipment. It'll just take time while they refine the launching capacity.

The most typing-challenged man in the world

[Em Emalb]

I don't always make a bunch of basic spelling mistakes in my submissions to Slashdot, but when I do, I drink Dos Equis.

Re:he the the?

[MozeeToby]

Yeah, Slashdot editors are uh failure of our educational system.

Re:Success??

[SleazyRidr]

It's a total success. The summary says that the satellite is 22 miles higher than it's supposed to be. They're just being conservative, and allowing some room if it falls a bit.

Re:300mi South of Seoul?

[c6gunner]

"Hey, honey, have you seen the remote control?"

"Yeah, it's about 20 feet north of the front door!"

Yep .... real useful.