OREANDA-NEWS. South Korea KSLV-1 (the first S.Korea Space Launch Vehicle, also known as Naro) second launch will be conducted on schedule Wednesday, June 9, reported the press-centre of Khrunichev.
 
The launch vehicle, called Naro-2, was installed onto its launch table at the national Naro Space Center on Monday night, June 7, and final rehearsal started at 11 a.m. (local time) today.
 
The Ministry of Science and Technology will held a meeting of the Naro management committee Wednesday morning to determine the exact launch time. The launch time is expected to be announced at around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday based on the results of the final rehearsal and weather conditions.

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Russia and South Korea had signed an inter-governmental agreement on cooperation in exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes. They agreed to jointly develop and build a space booster complex for South Korea based on the small-lift KSLV-1 launch vehicle. The KSLV-I contract was signed in October 2004. The first stage of KSLV-I was developed and fabricated in Russia while the second stage and payload were designed and built in S.Korea. 

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) is the Customer in KSLV project. The Mocsow-based Khrunichev Space Center is the prime contractor on the Russian side. The other Russian participants include NPO Energomash (designer and builder of the first stage propulsion system) and Transportation Machine-Building Design Bureau (designer of the ground complex). The Russian specialists designed the ground facilities of Naro, S.Korea’s first spaceport, and took part in its construction. The facilities of the Naro Space Center will support space launches and mission control. The first stone for the launch pad was brought from the famed Gagarin’s Pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
 
KSLV-1 is capable of launching 100 kg payload into low elliptical orbits with an altitude of 300 km in perigee and 1500 km in apogee. The launch vehicle is 33 meters long and 2.9 meters in diameter, and its overall mass is 140 MT.
 
The first launch of the KSLV-1 took place in 2009. The KSLV booster (also known as Naro-1 LV), carrying the S. Korea's STSAT-2 satellite, was launched from the Naro Space Center on August 25. The Russian side of the joint project should regard the launch as successful while for the Korean side it is only partially so. The first stage of KSLV-I, developed and fabricated by the Russia's Khrunichev Space Center, performed nominally.
 
On April 4, 2010, the first stage for Naro-2, developed and fabricated by Khrunichev, was delivered  from Russia to South Korea aboard transport plane operated by Russia’s Polyot carrier.