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Operator file · KR-1079
Agency for Defense Development
South Korea · Government · EST. 1970
Agency for Defense Development is a government launch operator based in South Korea, founded in 1970. It has flown 1 launches under its own name. 1 succeeded and 0 failed, a success rate of 100.0%. Its next launch is Mir | Demo Flight, from ADD Offshore launch platform, set for November 13, 2026 at about 05:00 UTC.
SourceLAUNCH LIBRARY 2
Window reaches2039-12-31 00:00:00Z
Page generated2026-11-11 10:42:08Z
Flight record
Launch statistics
ON RECORD
Total launches1
Successful1
Failed0
Success rate100.0%
Consecutive successes1
Scheduled1
Founded1970
These are launches under ADD’s own name in The Space Devs’ Launch Library. They don’t count missions or payloads. A spacecraft that flew on someone else’s rocket counts for the operator that flew it.
Operator or customer
An operator owns the rocket and runs the count, and the launch schedule filters by operator. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. Some organisations are both. Below, ADD is counted in whichever role the current schedule gives it.
Manifest role
LIVE COUNT
Flying as operator1
Named as customer0
Window reaches2039-12-31 00:00:00Z
Scheduled (register total)1
No scheduled flight names ADD with someone else flying it.
How we count it: a scheduled launch counts as a customer flight when this organisation’s name or abbreviation is in the launch name, mission name or programme, and someone else is flying it. We don’t search mission descriptions, and we only see the schedule as far as it goes, which is 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. So treat both counts as a minimum.
About ADD
The Agency for Defense Development (ADD) is the South Korean national agency for research and development in defense technology, funded by the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA). Its purpose is contributing to enforcing the national defence, to improving the national R&D capacity, and to fostering the domestic defense industry.
Upcoming launches
The label on each flight says how exact its launch time is. If the date is only known to the month, you’ll see the month and no countdown. A weather go-probability only shows when Launch Library has one for that flight. EveryLaunch doesn’t work it out.
ADD in the archive
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Common questions
- How many launches has Agency for Defense Development flown?
- Agency for Defense Development has flown 1 launches under its own name. 1 succeeded and 0 failed. That counts launches it flew itself, not missions or payloads it contributed to.
- What is Agency for Defense Development's success rate?
- 100.0%. That's 1 successful flights out of 1 attempts. Its last 1 launches in a row have succeeded.
- When is Agency for Defense Development's next launch?
- Mir | Demo Flight, set for November 13, 2026 at about 05:00 UTC from ADD Offshore launch platform. Launch Library files that time to the hour, so it can be out by up to an hour. Launch times are no-earlier-than targets and can move.
- Does Agency for Defense Development fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?
- Agency for Defense Development has flown 1 launches under its own name. It's the operator on 1 scheduled flight. An operator owns the rocket and runs the count. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. The operator filter on the launch schedule only lists operators, so a well-known agency can own a mission and still not show up there.
- Where is Agency for Defense Development based?
- South Korea. Launch Library lists it as a government operator, founded in 1970.