SEOUL — South Korea's defence ministry said on Monday (April 8) the country's second homegrown spy satellite had entered orbit after its launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the John F. Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
SpaceX logo and Elon Musk silhouette are seen in this illustration taken, Dec 19, 2022.SEOUL — South Korea's defence ministry said on Monday the country's second homegrown spy satellite had entered orbit after its launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the John F. Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
The Falcon 9 rocket was launched at 2317 GMT on Sunday and the satellite successfully separated from the launch vehicle 45 minutes later and entered its targeted orbit, the ministry said in a statement. The back-to-back launches of reconnaissance satellites come amid a race against North Korea for military capabilities in space.
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