Danuri

fully commercial rocket

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Payloads

1 Assets

Assets deployed on this mission

Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orb.

active

Launch Details

Launch Date

8/4/2022

Launch Site

CC LC40

Launch Vehicle

Falcon 9 FT5 (Falcon 9 Family)

Mission Stats

Orbit: interplanetary
Operator: Unknown
Price (Est): Secret
Payload Count: 1

Entity Mentions

All verified mentions of this entity in source documents

Danuri carries ShadowCam, a NASA-funded instrument built at Arizona State University to collect high-resolution images of the moon’s permanently shadowed regions to ascertain the distribution and accessibility of water ice and other volatiles.

Mentioned as: DanuriSourceJun 14, 2024

KARI planned for KPLO to be captured into lunar orbit on 2022-12-16 and to perform propulsive maneuvers to reach a circular low-altitude orbit about 100 km from the lunar surface by 2022-12-31.

Mentioned as: KPLOSourceAug 5, 2022

The KPLO launch was delayed from 2022-08-02 to 2022-08-04 to allow SpaceX to complete additional work on the Falcon 9 rocket.

Mentioned as: KPLOSourceAug 5, 2022