KARI KSR-3

KARI KSR-3
	KSR-3
Country of origin	South Korea
Date	2002
Designer	Korea Aerospace Research Institute
Liquid-fuel engine

KSR-3orKSR-III(Korean Sounding Rocket-3)^[2]is a South Korean liquidsounding rocketdesigned byKorea 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 fromAnheung Proving Ground,reaching analtitudeof 42.7 km (26.5 mi) and flying over 84 km (52 mi).^[5]

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Payload: 150 kg
Apogee:42.7 km
Range: 79 km
Thrust: 13 t
Weight: 6.1 t
Diameter: 0.42 m
Length: 13.5 m
Burn time: 53 sec
Launch: November 28, 2002^[6]

References

^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.

KARI KSR-3

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