Space


DPRK Space Launch Vehicles

© By Charles P. Vick (All Rights Reserved)

Senior Technical Analyst, Globalsecurity.org

10-21-09

North Korea has developed two basic satellite launch vehicles. They are the Taep’o-dong-1/“Paektusan-1” no longer in production pathfinder launch vehicle design and the Taep’o-dong-2/“Paektusan-2”/ Unha-2 (Galaxy) ballistic missile space booster presently in prototype production and flight testing. None have successfully orbit satellites as of October 2009.

 

Unha-1, Taep'o-dong-1

Unha-2, Taep'o-dong-2B

North Korean/ Iranian Unha-2, Taep'o-dong-2B Evolutionary Development Family.

 

 

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