SpaceX Launches Korea's First Moon Orbiter
On Thursday, August 4, 2022, at 7:08 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), officially named Danuri, to a ballistic lunar transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Danuri's destination is a a 100km Polar Lunar Orbit for a year-long mission conducting scientific research. South Korea has become the seventh country in the world to have launched an uncrewed probe to the Moon.
This was the sixth launch and landing of this SpaceX Falcon 9 booster, which previously supported the launch of Arabsat-6A, STP-2, COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2, and two Starlink missions.
Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)
Image Date: August 4, 2022
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