South Korean Lunar Orbiters Sends Back Pictures from the Moon

This is a good scientific achievement by the ROK:

This photo of Earth, provided by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), was taken Dec. 24, 2022, with a camera onboard the South Korean lunar orbiter Danuri. (Yonhap)

South Korea’s unmanned space vehicle Danuri has sent back photos of Earth and the moon after reaching the moon’s orbit last month, the state space research center said Tuesday.

The orbiter began performing three rounds of lunar orbit insertion (LOI) maneuvers Dec. 17 to lower its speed and commit itself to the gravity of the moon before entering the selenocentric orbit on Dec. 27.

The first photo was taken Dec. 24 some 345 kilometers above the moon, when Danuri was carrying out its second round of LOI, and the second one was taken four days later while rotating around the satellite of Earth, according to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI).

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setnaffa
setnaffa
1 year ago

Evidence that their current rocketry skills are more successful than the angry fatman to the north.

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