Converted Russian ICBM boost South Korean SAR satellite into space

A converted Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) has delivered a synthetic aperture radar-equipped South Korean observing satellite into orbit on Aug. 22.

This is South Korea’s fourth multipurpose satellite but the first with a radar.

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