🇰🇷South Korea Launch History

Every orbital and deep-space launch attempt attributed to South Korea, year by year, drawn from the GCAT launch catalog. Country is the launching state of the pad.

Data current as of 2026-07-20.

South Korea made 8 orbital and deep-space launch attempts between 2009 and 2025. Of those, 5 succeeded and 3 failed. The success rate comes to 63 percent. The busiest year was 2023, with 2 launches. The most recent launch in the catalog was in 2025. Launches took place from 2 sites.

8
Launch attempts
5
Successes
3
Failures
63%
Success rate

Launches per year

Year by year

Year Attempts Successes Failures Success rate
2025 1 1 0 100%
2023 2 2 0 100%
2022 1 1 0 100%
2021 1 0 1 0%
2013 1 1 0 100%
2010 1 0 1 0%
2009 1 0 1 0%

Launch sites

Counts for each GCAT launch site attributed to South Korea.

Site code Site Launches Successes Failures First year Last year
NARO Naro Space Center 7 4 3 2009 2025
JEJU · 1 1 0 2023 2023

Recent launches

The most recent launches attributed to South Korea, newest first.

Date Designator Payloads Vehicle Site / Pad Outcome
Nov 26, 2025 2025-274 4 : E3 TESTER 1, SNUGLITE-III, INHA-RoSAT
+10 more , JACK-004, COSMIC, SPIRONE, ETRISat, NEXTSAT-3, JACK-003, Sejong 4, PERSAT01, K-HERO, BEE-1000
Nuri NARO / LC2 Success
Dec 4, 2023 2023-188 S-STEP ADD TV2 JEJU / JEJU - Success
May 25, 2023 2023-072 3 : Doyosaet 3, LUMIR-T1, JAC
+5 more , KSAT3U, Doyosaet 1, Doyosaet 2, Doyosaet 4, NEXTSAT-2
Nuri NARO / LC2 Success
Jun 21, 2022 2022-065 2 : Dummy Cubesat, CubesatYonsei, SNUGLITE-2
+4 more , Astris 2, STEPCubeLab-2, Nuri Test Payload, Seongneung geomheung wiseong
Nuri NARO / LC2 Success
Oct 21, 2021 2021-F09 1 : Nuri Test Payload Nuri NARO / LC2 Failure
Jan 30, 2013 2013-003 74503 : STSat-2C Naro-1 NARO / LC1 Success
Jun 10, 2010 2010-F02 74502 : STSat-2B Naro-1 NARO / LC1 Failure
Aug 25, 2009 2009-F03 74501 : STSat-2 Naro-1 NARO / LC1 Failure