S.Korea's first self-launched satellite fails to reach set orbit

MOSCOW. August 25. KAZINFORM The first satellite launched by South Korea failed to reach its designated orbit pattern on Tuesday, the Yonhap news agency has reported; Kazinform cites RIA Novosti.

The two-staged KSLV-1 rocket failed to deliver the 100-kilogram oceanic and atmospheric research satellite into its target orbit. The rocket was launched from the Naro Space Center, 485 kilometers (300 miles) south of the capital Seoul.

"We can not find the satellite in its designated orbit," South Korean Science Minister Ahn Byung-man said at a press conference in Seoul.

Earlier on Tuesday, Russia's Khrunichev space center, which developed the carrier rocket, said the satellite was in orbit; Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.

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