Korea launched a 500-kilogram Compact Advanced Satellite into the atmosphere Monday, the first of five in a government plan to transfer satellite technology to private firms.
 
The CAS500-1 model was one of 38 satellites carried into space by Russia’s Soyuz 2.1a launcher, which took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3 p.m. 

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