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It's not early at all. SKOR already operates an MSLV with 3 tonne payload cap and has engines & tech enough to bring a 6-7 tonnes cap one in next 5 years. We can safely say here that North Korea comfortably trails behind South Korea at least 10 years if not 20 will always remain so. If...

North Korea lies nowhere near AFAIK.

New Korean space agency to blast off in H1 Space experts, industry officials upbeat about KASA’s role in supporting private sector, expanding global cooperation. South Korea launches its homegrown Nuri rocket for the third time, Thursday at 6:24 p.m. from the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South...

S. Korea to launch 2 more military spy satellites this year A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying South Korea's first indigenous spy satellite lifts off from the U.S. Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, in this Dec. 1, 2023 file photo. Courtesy of SpaceX

ROK's Optical Earth Observation Constellation: NeonSat https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/neonsat-1.htm Nation:South Korea Type / Application:Earth observation Operator:KAIST Contractors:KAIST Equipment: Configuration: Propulsion: Power:Deployable solar array, batteries...

How did I miss it? South Korea says homegrown space rocket put satellites into orbit [1/3] People watch the launch of South Korea’s homegrown Nuri space rocket in Goheung, South Korea. Yonhap via REUTERS [2/3] South Korea?s homegrown Nuri space rocket is launched at the Naro Space...

South Korea cancels third launch of homegrown rocket due to technical problems

South Korea’s KSLV-2 rocket set to launch May 24 South Korea plans to conduct four more launches, including the upcoming one, through 2027 to improve the rocket’s technical reliability. South Korea’s KSLV-2 rocket blasts off from the launchpad at Naro Space Center in Goheung, June 21, 2022...

Korean probe Danuri sends stunning images of craters on the Moon The images were beamed back by the probe in April and show four craters on Moon - Tsiolkovsky crater, Schrödinger Valley, Wichmann Crater, and the Szilard M Crater. Tsiolkovsky crater video taken with a high-resolution camera on...

Next KSLV launch scheduled for 10th May 2023 with foreign payloads (transferred from earlier planned Soyuz launcher due to Russo-Ukraine war).

South Korean lunar mission Danuri shows stunning Earth view from Moon Dubbed Danuri, which means enjoy the moon in Korean, the probe has been developed by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI). Earth on December 24 at 344 km above the moon. (Photo: KARI) In Short The images were part...

Yes they are. They are not planning to develop new engine everytime like we did. So, their progress will be a bit faster till reaching GSLV Mk III capacity but they will need bigger cryo and semi cryo engines after that. They have at least reduced the gap if not near catching up with us. Their...

No And no explanation needed. Koreans want and can produce a GSLV Mk3 class rocket in 2030. Turks cannot produce SSLV class rocket even in next 10-15 years. He was an idiot. Bayraktar drones are mere assemblies. Beyond all the PR, Turkey imports sub components from Europe and assembles. It's...

It is very reasonable if they are going to send a small lander through orbital maneuvers. Launching a 1.8 tonnes lander, powered by RTEGs and that also directly in TLI is unrealistic for South Korea by 2031. No, they will continue with NASA's initiatives. We don't have quite warm relations...

Not just planning lunar lander, they are planning launch on an indigenous launcher, direct trans lunar injection and an RTEG (nuclear powered) power source for months long machines at par with NASA, that all by 2031. Don't think anything significant will be there in meantime. South Korea...

South Korea seeks $459 million for lunar lander project

Looks like they are on overdrive KSLV-III / KSLV-IV KSLV-III KSLV-4 / KSLV-IV

There is a stark difference. Big agencies are clustering engines to make super heavy launchers (Saturn V class rockets). Even ISRO's SCE-200 engines will be clustered to make HLV and later a manned moon rocket. So are Chiense with their CZ-5C and CZ-9. South Korea is clustering small engines to...

Beyond the abilities of major space agencies; NASA, RFSA, ESA, CNSA, ISRO and JAXA which are always in limelight, these ones usually don't get to make in headlines. State Space Agency of Ukraine: Uses Soviet origin Zenith rockets (slightly higher payload than LVM3). Used by Ukraine for...

That is why I said they are going to take time. They are not going to cross 6-8 tonnes LEO capacity with clustering of small engines (and that too a bulky inefficient LV). As told to @SKC, they aren't going to surpass either of ISRO or JAXA anytime soon. But they certainly are in a league ahead...