SpaceX Launches South Korea’s 2nd Spy Satellite Amid Race With North

SpaceX Launches South Korea’s 2nd Spy Satellite Amid Race With North
SpaceX logo and Elon Musk silhouette in this illustration take on Dec. 19, 2022. Dado Ruvic/Reuters
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SEOUL—South Korea’s defense ministry said on Monday the country’s second homegrown spy satellite had entered orbit after its launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The launch, which comes after Seoul’s first spy satellite was put into orbit from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base in December, was livestreamed on social media platforms X and YouTube.