South Korea's Rocket Apparently Explodes After Liftoff
South Korea’s Science Minister told reporters that the KSLV-1 rocket launched today apparently exploded after liftoff. “An inboard camera detected a bright flash of light at 137 seconds into the flight, which coincides exactly with the loss of communication with the two stage rocket,” Yonhap News Service quoted the Minister, Ahn Byong-man, as saying. The camera was on the second stage. The first stage of the rocket was built by Russia, the second stage by South Korea.
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