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Satellite is up, but not located

After a one-day delay, Korea’s first scientific research satellite, Kosmos-3M, was launched from the Plesetsk rocket base in northern Russia at 3:11 p.m., Korean time, on Saturday. Scientists have yet to communicate with the satellite, and say it is too early to determine whether it has entered the correct orbit around Earth. The Ministry of Science and Technology and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, or KAIST, said that as of 5 p.m. on Sunday they had tried four times to contact the satellite, but had had no success. “When the rocket was separated from the satellite in the space, we did not receive exact information from the launching rocket about the coordinates of the satellite at the moment of separation or the satellite’s orbit status, so we have not been able to calculate the path of the satellite,” said Yoo Gwang-seon, a researcher at KAIST’s satellite research center, which is monitoring the launch. But the center said that it will receive exact information on the satellite from the U.S. North American Air Defense system in a few days, and predicted that there would be no problem operating the satellite. The satellite was developed beginning in 1998 entirely with domestic technology; it cost 11.7 billion won ($10 million). by Choi Ji-young
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