South Korea on Wednesday launched one of its domestically developed Nuri rockets on a mission to put 13 satellites into orbit.

The three-stage rocket blasted off from the country's national space launch center in the southern village of Goheung.

South Korea in 2022 became the world’s 10th nation to place a satellite into space with its own technology.

With the world’s 10th largest economy South Korea, is a major producer of semiconductors, automobiles and smartphones but its space development program lags behind that of Asian neighbors China, India and Japan.