This handout photo taken on June 21, 2022 and provided by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute shows South Korea's homegrown space rocket Nuri launching from the Naro Space Center in the southern coastal village of Goheung.
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SEOUL – Firefighters have extinguished a fire at a South Korean space center during a test of a turbopump that feeds propellants to rocket engines, South Korea’s science ministry said on Wednesday.
Some testing equipment was affected by the fire but no casualties have been reported, officials said
The fire at the Naro Space Center in the southern coastal county of Goheung on Tuesday afternoon was extinguished in about 70 minutes, the ministry said.
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Some testing equipment was affected by the fire but no casualties have been reported, officials said, adding they were looking into the cause of the incident.
Tuesday’s test was not related to the country’s planned third launch of its domestically produced Nuri rocket in May, the ministry said.