In 2023, there were around *** thousand employees working in the satellite services and equipment sector within the South Korean space industry. Overall, there were about ** thousand employees within the domestic space industry that year. With the successful launch of the Nuri rocket (also known as KSLV-II) in 2022, South Korea became the seventh country in the world that was able to put in orbit a satellite that weighs over *** metric ton.
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