South Korea has launched the "Naro," its first-ever space rocket carrying a satellite, at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Jeolla Province.

The injection of fuel and oxidation agents was completed an hour before blastoff. 15 minutes before its launch, the rocket began its automatic launch sequence.

At 5 p.m. the rocket soared up nine-hundred meters vertically for 20 seconds and continued ascending southward over the Pacific Ocean.

After three minutes and 35 seconds, the rocket's protective cover separated.

Then, it shed its first- and second-stage rocket boosters.

Nine minutes after lift-off, the satellite separated from the rocket at an altitude of about three-hundred kilometers.