South Korea on Wednesday planned to postpone a rocket launch that was designed to put a satellite into space, owing to troubles with the rocket's fire extinguisher system, officials informed.

The Science and Technology Ministry said that the procedure was suspended less than three hours prior to blast-off after engineers were able to discover that there was a leak in one of three extinguisher nozzles.

Ministry Spokesperson, Pyun Kyung-Bum said that the leak was not directly associated with the NARO 1 rocket. However, the launch that had originally been set for 5 p. m. at the NARO Space Center off the south coast had to be cancelled.

After determining the fault as to why the system did not work properly, the engineers will give date for the next blast off session.

South Korea is trying to become a part of an exclusive association, which currently has nine nations as its members that have put a satellite into orbit by making use of a nationally assembled rocket.

Its initial attempt failed last August, when fairings on the nose cone of the NARO-1 could not open properly, so that the satellite could not be released into orbit, hence, proved to be a failure.