The North Korean space agency said it would attempt a third launch in October after studying what went wrong.
The Malligyong-1 spy satellite was launched Thursday local time on the newly developed Chollima-1 rocket, whose first- and second-stage flights were normal, the official Korean Central News Agency reported. It said the launch failed “due to an error in the emergency blasting system during the third-stage flight.”
The North Korean space agency said there would be a third launch attempt in October after it assessed why the Thursday launch failed. “The cause of the relevant accident is not a big problem in aspect of the reliability of cascade engines and the system,” it said, according to the KCNA report.North Korea, which seeks to develop a space-based surveillance system to better monitor U.S.
In an unusually frank acknowledgment of failure, North Korea said at the time that the rocket had lost thrust between the first and second stages of the launch. Top North Korean officials later called the failed launch this year’s “most serious” shortcoming in the country’s efforts to advance its weapons programs, according to KCNA.
The South Korean military, which recovered wreckage from both the satellite and the rocket used to launch it, said last month thatThe United States, South Korea and Japan strongly condemned the May launch as a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions that bar North Korea from using ballistic missile technology.
The launch on Thursday comes as the U.S. and South Korea are conducting annual military exercises that the North views as a rehearsal for invasion, which the two allies deny.last week between the U.S., South Korea and Japan raised the risk of nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula., in a widely expected resumption of weapons tests in response to the 11-day U.S.-South Korea drills.
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