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A picture of Earth taken on Sept. 15 by Danuri, Korea's first domestically-developed lunar orbiter, was released by Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and the Ministry of Science and ICT on Tuesday.
An image shows the southern polar region of the moon where the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft made its historic first touchdown.
Danuri lunar orbiter was launched on Aug. 5, carried by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Danuri, Korea’s first lunar orbiter, sent pictures of the dark side of the moon taken on its mission orbit, the Science Ministry said Wednesday.
Earth phases observed by Danuri, Korea's first lunar orbiter, from Jan. 6 to Feb. 4 on the mission to orbit the moon. Danuri achieved the target orbit on Dec. 27, 145 days after launch.
With the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter — the spacecraft's formal name — successfully reaching mission orbit, Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) became the seventh space agency to put a satellite into orbit around the moon.
Korea’s first lunar orbiter Danuri successfully entered the target orbit around the moon.
The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter — the spacecraft's formal name — completed an orbit insertion (LOI) maneuver at 2:45 a.m., Saturday, according to the Ministry of Science and ICT and Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI).
The Ministry of Science and ICT said Danuri is scheduled to carry out its first lunar orbit insertion maneuver on Saturday and four other rounds of maneuvers in the coming days before being captured in the lunar orbit on Dec. 29.
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute and the Science Ministry said Monday that Danuri sent texts and images, including the “Dynamite” (2020) music video by BTS, through interplanetary communication enabled by a delay tolerant network equipment.
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