Two Korean man-made satellites will be put into orbit, one on Thursday and the other on Friday.

At 4:43 a.m. Korean time, Hannuri, an ultra-small artificial satellite developed by a Hankuk Aviation University research team, will be launched into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

At 4:05 p.m. on Friday, a multi-purpose satellite developed by the Korea Aerospace Industries is scheduled to lift off from a launch pad in the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, about eight hundred kilometers northeast of Moscow.

The satellite, christened Arirang 2, is equipped with a high-resolution multi-spectral camera that can recognize each one-square-meter space on the ground as a dot. From at a six hundred-85 kilometer orbit, the satellite is expected to collect geographical data for the Korean Peninsula and probe disaster-hit areas.