State-operated launches
- Past launches
- 8 past launches
- Upcoming launches
- 1 upcoming
Winding downpeak 2 · 2023
Flies Nuri +2next in ~4mo
Emerging
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.
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 ~5mo ago
Full Launch History
2026 Q3 | Neonsat x 5 South Korea•Nuri |
Dec 22, 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 |