South Korean Launch A Partial Success

South Korea’s often-delayed KSLV-1 launch vehicle lifted off early Aug. 25 with a small domestically produced spacecraft aboard, but while the Russian-powered rocket performed well enough, the satellite was released into an orbit 36 kilometers higher than planned. According to press reports from...

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