🇰🇷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
Successes
Failures
Each bar links to that year's full chronology.
Year by year
Launch sites
Counts for each GCAT launch site attributed to South Korea.
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 |