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Goheung

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Goheung
Goheung
Credit: © Mark Wade

South Korean space center, built on Woenaro Island, off the Goheung peninsula, at the southern end of the Korean peninsula. The space center would be built in four phases through 2015 on a 4.95 million square meter landfill on the shore of the island.

The total area was planned to be 500,000 square meters, including 300,000 square meters of buildings. By the end of Phase 4 it was to comprise two launch pads, a combustion test building, a radar center, an observatory tower, a launch control center, surveillance radar, a helipad, generator buildings, support equipment storage warehouses, a meteorological office, quarters, a press center, a satellite assembly shop, a space experience hall and an optical tracking center. A total of 125 million dollars would be expended through Phase I in 2005, with the final total cost through 2015 expected to be $ 4.3 billion. The center was eventually expected to provide 5,200 jobs. Woenaro Island had an area of 26.5 square kilometers and a pre-construction population of 4,000. The island had a shoreline of 45 kilometers and its highest point was 393 meters above sea level.

Launch Vehicles
KSLV-III
Agency
KARI

Chronology

3 events

2009 August 25

08:00 GMT - . Launch Site: Goheung. LV Family: Angara. Launch Vehicle: Naro-1. FAILURE: First and second stages operated correctly, but half of payload fairing failed to separate. Extra mass prevented the second stage and payload from reaching orbital velocity, and the satellite reentered over New Guinea..

2010 June 10

18:01 GMT - . Launch Site: Goheung. LV Family: Angara. Launch Vehicle: Naro-1. FAILURE: First stage failure..
  • STSAT-2B - . Mass: 99 kg (218 lb). Nation: Korea South. Agency: KARI. Spacecraft: STSAT. Science and Technology Satellite with Lyman-alpha imaging solar telescope and laser altimeter..

2013 January 30

07:00 GMT - . Launch Site: Goheung. LV Family: Angara. Launch Vehicle: Naro-1.
  • STSat-2C - . Mass: 90 kg (198 lb). Nation: Korea South. Class: Earth. Type: Geodetic satellite. Spacecraft: STSat. USAF Sat Cat: 39068 . COSPAR: 2013-003A. Apogee: 1,464 km (909 mi). Perigee: 295 km (183 mi). Inclination: 80.27 deg. Period: 102.56 min. First indigenously-launched South Korean satellite; first successful launch of KSLV-III launch vehicle..