South Korea's first lunar orbiter launched by SpaceX

South Korea's first lunar orbiter launched by SpaceX

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Seoul (AFP) Aug 5, 2022

South Korea's first lunar orbiter successfully launched on a year-long mission to observe the Moon, Seoul said Friday, with the payload including a new disruption-tolerant network for sending data from space. Danuri - a portmanteau of the Korean words for "Moon" and "enjoy" - was on a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida by Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX. It aims t

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