South Korean ADD Solid-Fuel SLV (3 stage)

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Agency for Defense Development (ADD)

Dec. 4, 2023

Description

Specifications
  • Stages
    3
  • Length
  • Diameter
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    South Korean ADD Solid-Fuel SLV (3 stage)
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    South Korean ADD Solid-Fuel SLV (3 stage)
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    100.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Agency for Defense Development

Government
None
ADD 1970

The Agency for Defense Development (ADD) is the South Korean national agency for research and development in defense technology, funded by the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA). Its purpose is contributing to enforcing the national defence, to improving the national R&D capacity, and to fostering the domestic defense industry.

South Korean ADD Solid-Fuel SLV (3 stage) | S-STEP

Agency for Defense Development | South Korea
Sea Launch
Dec. 4, 2023, 5 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Note: Launch vehicle name is provisional. Prototype small synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite built by Hanhwa Aerospace on a planar satellite bus. First orbital test launch of the South Korean military small satellite launch vehicle after 2 sub-orbital tests of individual stages on 30 March and 30 December 2022. Does not include planned 2nd stage of the full LV.

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