MOSCOW. April 20 (Interfax-AVN) - The work to create the first stage of the South Korean carrier rocket KSLV-1, to be launched this year, is continuing at the Khrunichev state space research and production corporation.
"Khrunichev has assembled the first stage and is testing it in the control and testing facility," the Khrunichev research center said.
The first stage for the KSLV-1 carrier rocket is being created under a Russian-South Korean intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in peaceful space exploration and utilization, signed in October 2004.
Khrunichev is in charge of overall development of the stage. The engines for the stage were designed and made by Energomash. The Transport Machine-Building Design Bureau is responsible for the development of the land complex Naro, whose construction is nearing completion on Venarodo Island.
The second stage and the launch vehicle are being designed and manufactured in South Korea.