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KARI KSR-3

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

KSR-3 or KSR-III (Korean Sounding Rocket-3) is a South Korean liquid sounding rocket designed by Korea Aerospace Research Institute. It was launched successfully on November 28, 2002 for scientific surveillance purposes. 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).

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

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

v t e South Korean space program
Organizations	Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)
Launch sites	Anheung Proving Ground Naro Space Center
Sounding rockets	KARI KSR-I KSR-II KSR-III Nuri TLV ADD Solid-Fuel Space Launch Vehicle TLV
Launch vehicles	KARI Naro-1 (KSLV-I) Nuri (KSLV-II) KSLV-III (In development) ADD Solid-Fuel Space Launch Vehicle
Satellites	Kitsat 1 2 3 KOMPSAT 1 2 3 3A 5 6 7 7A STSat 1 2A 2B 2C 3 KOREASAT 1 2 3 5 5A 6 7 CAS500 1 2 GEO-KOMPSAT 1 2A 2B 3
Space probes	Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter
Contractors	Hanwha Aerospace HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Korea Aerospace Industries Korean Air LIG Nex1 Satrec Initiative
Astronauts	Yi So-yeon Ko San
Related institutions	Agency for Defense Development (ADD) KAIST Satellite Technology Research Center (SaTReC) National Space Committee ROKAF space operations center

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