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Astroscale’s ELSA-M spacecraft will tackle space debris by capturing and deorbiting decommissioned satellites, aiming to clean Earth's crowded orbit.

North Korea also vowed it will continue to develop its nuclear capability and strengthen solidarity with other countries that oppose what it called the "US strategy for world supremacy."

South Korea found debris off its west coast soon after the launch, and began a salvage operation in the hopes of studying the new rocket.

The satellite was launched into orbit on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is the latest satellite that ImageSat has sent into space.

Nate Evans, the spokesperson for the US mission to the United Nations, said the United States had called for an open meeting on the launch, which means the proceedings would be streamed live.

Nuclear-armed North Korea says it has completed its first military spy satellite and leader Kim Jong Un has approved final preparations for the launch.

Nuclear-armed North Korea says it has completed its first military spy satellite and leader Kim Jong Un has approved the launch.

A solar storm occurs when material from solar wind reaches Earth's magnetic field - these are also called geomagnetic storms.

The satellite in question is the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, launched in 2002 and retired in 2018. The odds are very low of anyone being hit.

The Kyiv city military administration said the bright light and flaming object was a crashing NASA satellite, but NASA denied this.