KSR-3 or KSR-III (Korean Sounding Rocket-3)[2] is a South Korean liquid sounding rocket designed by Korea Aerospace Research Institute.[3] It was launched successfully on November 28, 2002 for scientific surveillance purposes.[4] The first test flight of KSR-III was carried out by the KARI rocketry team from Anheung Proving Ground, reaching an altitude of 42.7 km (26.5 mi) and flying over 84 km (52 mi).[5]
 KSR-3 | |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
|---|---|
| Date | 2002[1] |
| Designer | Korea Aerospace Research Institute |
| Liquid-fuel engine | |
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edit- ^ Eligar Sadeh (November 2010). The Politics of Space: A Survey. Routledge. pp. 80–. ISBN 978-1-136-88425-2.
- ^ Si-Chee Tsay; Tatsuya Yokota; Myoung-Hwan Ahn; Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (2004). Passive optical remote sensing of the atmosphere and clouds IV: 9-10 November, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. SPIE. ISBN 9780819456137.
- ^ C. T. Sun (24 October 2002). Proceedings of the American Society for Composites, Seventeenth Technical Conference. CRC Press. pp. 68–. ISBN 978-0-8493-1501-5.
- ^ Korea Trade & Investment. Korea Trade Promotion Corporation. 2003.
- ^ Brian Harvey; Henk H. F. Smid; Theo Pirard (30 January 2011). Emerging Space Powers: The New Space Programs of Asia, the Middle East and South-America. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 512–. ISBN 978-1-4419-0874-2.
- ^ Ann Darrin; Beth L. O'Leary (26 June 2009). Handbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology, and Heritage. CRC Press. pp. 975–. ISBN 978-1-4200-8432-0.
Further reading
edit- Encyclopedia Astronautica KSR-III. KSR-III
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