Falcon 9 Block 5 Flight 169 | Danuri
Danuri, the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, is the Republic of Korea's first mission beyond Earth orbit. KARI's spacecraft followed a fuel-saving ballistic lunar transfer before entering polar lunar orbit in December 2022. Its six-instrument payload combines five Korean investigations with NASA's ShadowCam, a highly light-sensitive camera designed to study permanently shadowed polar terrain and potential ice deposits.
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- DanuriKorea Pathfinder Lunar OrbiterKPLOFalcon 9 F169
- Name
- Falcon 9 Block 5 Flight 169 | Danuri
- Status
- completed
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- Description
- Danuri, the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, is the Republic of Korea's first mission beyond Earth orbit. KARI's spacecraft followed a fuel-saving ballistic lunar transfer before entering polar lunar orbit in December 2022. Its six-instrument payload combines five Korean investigations with NASA's ShadowCam, a highly light-sensitive camera designed to study permanently shadowed polar terrain and potential ice deposits.
- End Date
- 2022-08-04
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- Outcome
- Successfully injected Danuri onto its ballistic lunar transfer and recovered booster B1052
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- Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter
- Start Date
- 2022-08-04
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- Creation Time
- July 19, 2026 at 19:02:12 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 19, 2026 at 19:02:12 UTC
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