KARI KSR-3

KARI KSR-3

KSR-3
Country of origin	South Korea
Date	2002[1]
Designer	Korea Aerospace Research Institute
Liquid-fuel engine

KSR-3 or KSR-III (Korean Sounding Rocket-3)[2] is a South Korean liquid sounding rocket designed by Korea 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 from Anheung Proving Ground, reaching an altitude of 42.7 km (26.5 mi) and flying over 84 km (52 mi).[5]

Spec

• 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]

See also

• KSLV-I
• KSLV-II
• KARI KSR-1
• KARI KSR-2

References

1. Eligar Sadeh (November 2010). The Politics of Space: A Survey. Routledge. pp. 80–. ISBN 978-1-136-88425-2.
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.
3. 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.
4. Korea Trade & Investment. Korea Trade Promotion Corporation. 2003.
5. 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.
6. 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.

Further reading

• Encyclopedia Astronautica KSR-III. KSR-III