South Korea launches domestically designed rocket dubbed Nuri with a "commercial-style satellite" The country has set itself the goal of sending spacecraft to the Moon by 2032 and to Mars by 2045. The first two South Korean launches of a rocket using Russian technology, in 2009 and 2010, ended in failure.
It took about ten years to create this rocket of 47 meters high and weighing 200 tons, at a cost of 2,000 billion won (1.4 billion euros) The launch was watched by more than 200,000 viewers on YouTube.