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South Korea completes checks on space rocket
Jun 8, 2010, 16:08 GMT
Seoul - South Korea on Tuesday completed final checks for the launch of a space rocket, media reports said.
The 33-metre tall Naro-1 rocket is due to blast off Wednesday afternoon, the Yonhap news agency reported citing the government and Korea Aerospace Research Institute.
The locally assembled rocket is scheduled to lift off from the Naro Space Centre, 485 kilometers south of the capital.
'Tests moved forward smoothly without any complications being detected,' Vice Science Minister Kim Jung-hyun said.
Local and Russian specialists were due to meet Wednesday morning to decide whether to go ahead with the launch.
The country's first locally assembled rocket blasted off in August but a malfunction prevented it from putting a 100-kilogram satellite into orbit.
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