Seoul, May 31 (EFE).- North Korea reported today that the space rocket that it launched on Wednesday with a reconnaissance satellite on board has crashed into the Yellow Sea due to a technical failure and that it will attempt another launch of this rocket soon. guy.
The satellite was launched on a Chollima-1 rocket, a new type of projectile, at 6:27 local time (21:27 GMT on Tuesday) from the Sohae space launch station (northwest of the country), the KCNA news agency reported.
The North Korean state media indicated that after the separation of the first phase of the rocket “the ignition of the engine of the second was abnormal, for which reason it lost propulsion and crashed into the West Sea” (name given to the Yellow Sea in the two Koreas).