The Nuri rocket has been fully erected and secured at the Naro Space Center launch pad, the Korea Aerospace Research Institute and Korea Space Administration confirmed. ^[1] The vehicle departed the centre’s assembly building at 06:00 on 6 May, arrived at the pad at 07:30, and took approximately three hours to complete vertical placement. ^[2] Final installation work on the pad is scheduled to conclude on 6 June. ^[3] Nine auxiliary satellites have completed basic status checks and entered initial operation verification stages. ^[4] Three satellites have successfully received signals from the ground station, but work is ongoing to establish two-way communication. ^[5] Administrator Oh Tae-seok stated the successful initial contact was enabled by more accurate orbit placement by the rocket, marking a step up in technical maturity. ^[6] Launch is scheduled for 12:25 local time on 7 November. ^{[7] [8]}