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South Korea Launches Its 1st Military Spy Satellite Amid North Korea Threats
A SpaceX rocket on Friday launched South Korea's first military spy satellite, intensifying a space race on the peninsula after Pyongyang launched its own first military eye in the sky last week.
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How Kim's Daughter, North Korea Scientists Celebrated Spy Satellite Launch
North Korea celebrated the deployment of its new spy satellite with breathless displays on state television, a banquet with rocket scientists and space agency T-shirts - including one prominently worn by leader Kim Jong Un's daughter.
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South Korea Recovers Parts Of Rocket Used In North Korea Satelite Launch
South Korea's military said Friday it had successfully retrieved a large chunk of a crashed North Korean space rocket from the sea bed after 15 days of complex salvage operations.
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South Korea Launches Its First Domestically-Developed Space Rocket
A successful launch would boost South Korea’s growing space ambitions but also prove it has key technologies to build a space-based surveillance system and bigger missiles amid animosities with rival North Korea, some experts say.
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Kim Jong Un's Rockets Are Getting An Important Boost - From China
When North Korea launched its Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite into space last February, officials heralded the event as a birthday gift for dead leader Kim Jong Il. But the day also brought an unexpected prize for the country's adversaries: priceless intelligence in the form of rocket parts that fell into the Yellow Sea.
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North Korea's Kim Jong-Un Calls For More Rocket Launches
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un says his reclusive nation plans more "satellite launches" -- which the West sees as a cover for ballistic missile tests -- calling space exploration a "strategic goal", state media said Friday.
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North Korea Triggers Fresh Outrage With Space Rocket Launch
North Korea said today that it had successfully put a satellite into orbit, with a rocket launch widely condemned as another defiant step towards a missile capable of striking the US mainland.
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North Korean Rocket Puts Object Into Space, Angers Neighbours, US
North Korea launched a long-range rocket today carrying what it has called a satellite, but its neighbours and Washington denounced the launch as a missile test, conducted in defiance of UN sanctions and just weeks after a nuclear bomb test.
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North Korea Launches Space Rocket, US Calls It 'Major Provocation'
North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Sunday, violating UN resolutions and doubling down against an international community already determined to punish Pyongyang for a nuclear test last month.
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North Korea Advances Plans To Launch Rocket: Report
North Korea says it has brought forward plans to launch a rocket and the event could now occur as early as Sunday, Japanese media reported.
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North Korea Says Readying Satellite, Hints at Long-Range Missile Launch
North Korea's space agency is close to developing a new satellite and readying it for launch, state media said today, suggesting it will fire a long-range rocket around a national anniversary next month.
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US sends new satellite into space to monitor missile launches
An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Tuesday to put a second upgraded missile-warning satellite into orbit.
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South Korea launches satellite, joins elite club
South Korea launched a rocket Wednesday in its third bid to put a satellite in orbit -- a high-stakes challenge to national pride after rival North Korea succeeded in the same mission last month.
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South Korea prepared for high-stake rocket launch today
South Korea is prepared for its third bid to send a satellite into orbit - a watershed moment for the future of the country's space programme and a high-stakes challenge to national pride.
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North Korea launches rocket in defiance of critics
Isolated and impoverished North Korea launched its second long- range rocket of 2012 on Wednesday and may have finally succeeded in putting a satellite into space, the stated aim of what critics say is a disguised ballistic missile test.
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South Korea Launches Its 1st Military Spy Satellite Amid North Korea Threats
A SpaceX rocket on Friday launched South Korea's first military spy satellite, intensifying a space race on the peninsula after Pyongyang launched its own first military eye in the sky last week.
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How Kim's Daughter, North Korea Scientists Celebrated Spy Satellite Launch
North Korea celebrated the deployment of its new spy satellite with breathless displays on state television, a banquet with rocket scientists and space agency T-shirts - including one prominently worn by leader Kim Jong Un's daughter.
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South Korea Recovers Parts Of Rocket Used In North Korea Satelite Launch
South Korea's military said Friday it had successfully retrieved a large chunk of a crashed North Korean space rocket from the sea bed after 15 days of complex salvage operations.
-
South Korea Launches Its First Domestically-Developed Space Rocket
A successful launch would boost South Korea’s growing space ambitions but also prove it has key technologies to build a space-based surveillance system and bigger missiles amid animosities with rival North Korea, some experts say.
-
Kim Jong Un's Rockets Are Getting An Important Boost - From China
When North Korea launched its Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite into space last February, officials heralded the event as a birthday gift for dead leader Kim Jong Il. But the day also brought an unexpected prize for the country's adversaries: priceless intelligence in the form of rocket parts that fell into the Yellow Sea.
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North Korea's Kim Jong-Un Calls For More Rocket Launches
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un says his reclusive nation plans more "satellite launches" -- which the West sees as a cover for ballistic missile tests -- calling space exploration a "strategic goal", state media said Friday.
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North Korea Triggers Fresh Outrage With Space Rocket Launch
North Korea said today that it had successfully put a satellite into orbit, with a rocket launch widely condemned as another defiant step towards a missile capable of striking the US mainland.
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North Korean Rocket Puts Object Into Space, Angers Neighbours, US
North Korea launched a long-range rocket today carrying what it has called a satellite, but its neighbours and Washington denounced the launch as a missile test, conducted in defiance of UN sanctions and just weeks after a nuclear bomb test.
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North Korea Launches Space Rocket, US Calls It 'Major Provocation'
North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Sunday, violating UN resolutions and doubling down against an international community already determined to punish Pyongyang for a nuclear test last month.
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North Korea Advances Plans To Launch Rocket: Report
North Korea says it has brought forward plans to launch a rocket and the event could now occur as early as Sunday, Japanese media reported.
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North Korea Says Readying Satellite, Hints at Long-Range Missile Launch
North Korea's space agency is close to developing a new satellite and readying it for launch, state media said today, suggesting it will fire a long-range rocket around a national anniversary next month.
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US sends new satellite into space to monitor missile launches
An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Tuesday to put a second upgraded missile-warning satellite into orbit.
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South Korea launches satellite, joins elite club
South Korea launched a rocket Wednesday in its third bid to put a satellite in orbit -- a high-stakes challenge to national pride after rival North Korea succeeded in the same mission last month.
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South Korea prepared for high-stake rocket launch today
South Korea is prepared for its third bid to send a satellite into orbit - a watershed moment for the future of the country's space programme and a high-stakes challenge to national pride.
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North Korea launches rocket in defiance of critics
Isolated and impoverished North Korea launched its second long- range rocket of 2012 on Wednesday and may have finally succeeded in putting a satellite into space, the stated aim of what critics say is a disguised ballistic missile test.
