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[South] [i]Korea's dream of putting its own satellite into orbit was halted during the final countdown, Wednesday, after engineers at the Naro Space Center gave the order to abort the launch due to unspecified technical problems possibly involving the rocket engine. The country's space agency quickly ruled out a Thursday launch, and some experts say it might take several days, if not weeks, before the country's very first rocket actually gets off the ground. Experts at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) stopped the countdown of the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1) with seven minutes and 56 seconds left after finding abnormal data during the automated sequence. The exact nature of the problems wasn't available as of Wednesday evening, although KARI officials said that the trouble was likely related to controls in a high-pressure tank designed to regulate valves in the rocket. However, they refused to confirm where the tank was located. KARI has now formed an investigation committee with Russia's Khrunichev State Space Science and Production Center, which is providing technology for the project.[/i]
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