State-operated launches
- Past launches
- 8 past launches
- Upcoming launches
- 1 upcoming
Winding downpeak 2 · 2023
Flies Nuri +2next in ~3mo
South Korea
Emerging space power
Nuri is South Korea's first orbital rocket built entirely at home — earlier vehicles used a Russian first stage. It's been flying successfully since 2022, so the country no longer relies on foreign launchers for its own satellites.
We track every launch from South Korea. Data updated 16 hours ago.
Programmesince 2009
20092026
- Nurisince 2021
- Naro2009–2013
- TV2023
- Hanbit2025
2009·first launch●Innospace·leading provider
- launches, home and abroad
- 9 launches
- upcoming
- 1 upcoming
- success
- 56% success
- launches, home and abroad
- 9 launches
- upcoming
- 1 upcoming
- success
- 56% success
- provider
- 1 provider
- spaceport
- 1 spaceport
1 Spaceport
Where South Korea’s launches lift off.
- Past launches
- 7 past launches
- Upcoming launches
- +1 upcoming
20082027
Naro
7+1
20082027
Fleet Overview
4 rockets in South Korea's fleet
Launch Activity
Past launches and what's coming up
Launch Providers
1 commercial provider and state-operated launches from South Korea
- State-operated launches89%
- Innospace11%
Of South Korea's 9 past launches, State-operated launches has flown 89%, and 50% of every launch in the past year.
Innospace
- Past launches
- 1 past launches
Emergingpeak 1 · 2025
Operates Hanbitflew ~6mo ago
Full Launch History
2026 Q3 | NeonSat 2-6 South Korea•Nuri |
Dec 23, 2025Failure | Spaceward South Korea•Innospace•Hanbit Nano |
Nov 26, 2025 | CAS500-3 South Korea•Nuri |
Dec 4, 2023 | S-STEP South Korea•TV 2 |
May 25, 2023 | NEXTSat-2 South Korea•Nuri |
Jun 21, 2022 | PVSAT South Korea•Nuri |
Oct 21, 2021Failure | Nuri maiden flight South Korea•Nuri |
Jan 30, 2013 | STSAT-2C South Korea•Naro 1 |
Jun 10, 2010Failure | STSAT-2B South Korea•Naro 1 |
Aug 25, 2009Failure | STSAT-2A South Korea•Naro 1 |