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| Nuri launches from Naro Space Center. Image credit: KARI. |
Launch of Nuri Rideshare
The Korean Advanced Research Institute (KARI) launched a Nuri (KSLV-2) rocket from the Naro Space Center in South Korea at 0325 UTC, or 1225 local time (KST). The primary payloads were NeonSat-2 to 6, a batch of five Sun-synchronous Earth observation satellites for the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Additionally, the rocket delivered ten rideshare payloads. One of them, Quarternion's PERSAT-02, failed to deploy, but the other nine were successfully released into orbit. A list of all the successfully deployed payloads is available beneath the "read more" break. This was the 5th flight of Nuri, and South Korea's first orbital launch of 2026. [Source: The Korea Herald]
Departure of Crew-12
Crew Dragon Freedom, carrying the crew of the SpaceX Crew-12 mission, undocked from the International Space Station at 1205 UTC after a stay of eight months. Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot, and Andrey Fedyaev are expected to re-enter tomorrow and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean at approximately 1534 UTC. Their departure brings the population of the station from ten down to its regular seven. [Source: NASA]
Artemis II Preliminary Science Report
NASA have released to the public all the remaining science data from the Artemis II flyby of the Moon. The 800 gigabyte release includes 11,000 photographs and 8.5 hours of crew audio. [Source: NASA]
