<span style="color: #222222;">South Korea on Wednesday conducted a rocket engine test launch, paving the way for the development of its own space launch vehicle.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Yonhap news agency said, a liquid-fuel engine successfully propelled a single-stage rocket from the Naro Space Center on the country's southern coast. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It is the first such launch in South Korea since 2013 when the country successfully put a small satellite into orbit following failures in 2009 and in 2010.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The engine, designed and developed by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute will be used to propel the country's first indigenous three-stage launch vehicle — the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-2 (KSLV-2) which is scheduled for 2021.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The KSLV-2 rocket, which will be South Korea's first space vehicle wholly designed and built by itself, will be used to place satellites into the Earth's orbit and for other commercial applications.</span><br />''