Operator file · KP-40
Korean Committee of Space Technology
Korean Committee of Space Technology is a government launch operator based in North Korea. It has flown 4 launches under its own name. 1 succeeded and 3 failed, a success rate of 25.0%. It has nothing on the schedule we can see right now.
Flight record
Launch statistics
These are launches under KCST’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, KCST is counted in whichever role the current schedule gives it.
Manifest role
No scheduled flight names KCST 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 KCST
The Korean Committee of Space Technology was the agency of the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) responsible for the country's space program. The agency was terminated and succeeded by the National Aerospace Development Administration in 2013 after the Law on Space Development was passed in the 7th session of the 12th Supreme People's Assembly.
Upcoming launches
Manifest
KCST has nothing on the schedule we can see, which runs to 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. Its missions show up here once a launch date is published.
All upcoming launchesThe 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.
KCST in the archive
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Common questions
- How many launches has Korean Committee of Space Technology flown?
- Korean Committee of Space Technology has flown 4 launches under its own name. 1 succeeded and 3 failed. That counts launches it flew itself, not missions or payloads it contributed to.
- What is Korean Committee of Space Technology's success rate?
- 25.0%. That's 1 successful flights out of 4 attempts. Its last 1 launches in a row have succeeded.
- When is Korean Committee of Space Technology's next launch?
- Korean Committee of Space Technology has nothing on the schedule EveryLaunch can see, which runs to 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z.
- Does Korean Committee of Space Technology fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?
- Korean Committee of Space Technology has flown 4 launches under its own name. It isn't the operator on any scheduled flight we can see. 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 Korean Committee of Space Technology based?
- North Korea. Launch Library lists it as a government operator.