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Class: Surveillance. Type: Civilian. Destination: Sun Synchronous Orbit. Nation: Korea South. Agency: KARI. Manufacturer: KARI.

South Korean indigenously-designed, multipurpose 1500 kg sun-synchronous orbit satellite, to be lofted by KSLV-III by 2015. A 1000-kg prototype testbed was to be placed in a low-earth orbit by a KSLV-II booster in 2010.

Mass: 1,500 kg (3,300 lb).

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