South Korea’s KSLV-2 rocket

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South Korea’s homegrown KSLV-2 rocket is slated to launch May 24

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carrying a 180-kilogram technology demonstration

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The mission, announced this week by South Korea’s science ministry

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comes 11 months after the KSLV-2’s first successful satellite

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If everything goes as planned, the kerosene and liquid oxygen-fueled

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An eight-day launch window for the mission closes May 31

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KSLV-2 can send up to 1.9 tons of payload to a 700-kilometer low Earth orbit

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a KRE-075 engine in the second stage

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South Korea plans to conduct four more launches

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