Korean Committee of Space Technology (KCST)
Korean Committee of Space Technology is a government space agency, operating out of North Korea.
The Korean Committee of Space Technology was the agency of the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) responsible for the country's space program. The agency was terminated and succeeded by the National Aerospace Development Administration in 2013 after the Law on Space Development was passed in the 7th session of the 12th Supreme People's Assembly.
Korean Committee of Space Technology Launch & Landing Record
| Total Launches | 4 |
|---|---|
| Successful Launches | 1 |
| Failed Launches | 3 |
| Consecutive Successful Launches | 1 |
Korean Committee of Space Technology Launchers
North Korea space launch vehicle (with possible linkage to their ballistic missile program) debuting in May 2023, named after a mythical horse of extreme endurance.
Exact design is unknown, but fragments salvaged from the sea shows similarities with the previous Unha series of launch vehicles.
A North Korean launch vehicle.
Taepodong-1 was a three-stage technology demonstrator developed by North Korea, a development step toward an intermediate-range ballistic missile. The missile was derived originally from the Scud rocket and was tested once in 1998 as a space launch vehicle. As a space launch vehicle, it was sometimes called the Paektusan 1.