North Korea launch its national first satelite successfully

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ORBIT

1 39026U 12072A 12347.09611576 -.00000066 00000-0 00000+0 0 21
2 39026 097.4047 036.0317 0067405 176.3492 277.5861 15.08261084 19


500 km sun-synch orbit, consistent with launch southbound from Sohae NK
at around the stated time


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Trajectory

RED = Second Stage flying and crashing path
GREEN = Upper Stage flying path
Yellow = ???




North Korea has now become the 10th nation that being able to launch satelite indigenously.


Order Country Satellite Rocket Location Date (UTC)
1 Soviet Union Sputnik 1 Sputnik-PS Baikonur, Soviet Union (today Kazakhstan) 4 October 1957
2 United States Explorer 1 Juno I Cape Canaveral, United States 1 February 1958
3 France Astérix Diamant A Hammaguir, Algeria 26 November 1965
4 Japan Ōsumi Lambda-4S Uchinoura, Japan 11 February 1970
5 China 东方红一号 长征一号 酒泉SLC, China 24 April 1970
6 United Kingdom Prospero X-3 Black Arrow Woomera, Australia 28 October 1971
— European Space Agency CAT-1 Ariane 1 Kourou, French Guiana 24 December 1979
7 India Rohini 1 SLV Sriharikota, India 18 July 1980
8 Israel Ofeq 1 Shavit Palmachim, Israel 19 September 1988
— Ukraine Strela-3 (x6, Russian) Tsyklon-3 Plesetsk, Russia 28 September 1991
— Russia Kosmos 2175 Soyuz-U Plesetsk, Russia 21 January 1992
9 Iran Omid Safir-2 Semnan, Iran 2 February 2009
10 North Korea 光明星3号 银河3号 西海SLC, NK 12 Dec, 2012

 

[BigDaddyWatch]

The launch was successful ?

 

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Initial indications suggest the rocket "deployed an object that appeared to achieve orbit," the North American Aerospace Defense Command, the joint U.S.-Canadian aerospace agency, said in a statement.

North Korea carries out controversial rocket launch - CNN.com

Congratulation!

 

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The North American Aerospace Defense Command says North Korea appears to have launched "an object" into Earth orbit

Initial indications are that the missile deployed an object that appeared to achieve orbit.

NORAD: NKorea appears to have orbited 'an object' - Connecticut Post

 

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Orbit

494 x 588 km x 97.4 deg

Space Launch Report

 

[Harry_Thomason]

Congratz to NK. Its funny how Western media portrayed it:

1) Its a threat to Worlds security! How dare they!!!
2) The launch was a failure!
3) Okey... maybe it was a success...

 

[beijingwalker]

goodHow come South Koreans can never make this work?

 

[shuntmaster]

Orbit

Space Launch Report

North Korea has now become the 10th nation that being able to launch satelite indigenously.


Order Country Satellite Rocket Location Date (UTC)
1 Soviet Union Sputnik 1 Sputnik-PS Baikonur, Soviet Union (today Kazakhstan) 4 October 1957
2 United States Explorer 1 Juno I Cape Canaveral, United States 1 February 1958
3 France Astérix Diamant A Hammaguir, Algeria 26 November 1965
4 Japan Ōsumi Lambda-4S Uchinoura, Japan 11 February 1970
5 China 东方红一号 长征一号 酒泉SLC, China 24 April 1970
6 United Kingdom Prospero X-3 Black Arrow Woomera, Australia 28 October 1971
— European Space Agency CAT-1 Ariane 1 Kourou, French Guiana 24 December 1979
7 India Rohini 1 SLV Sriharikota, India 18 July 1980
8 Israel Ofeq 1 Shavit Palmachim, Israel 19 September 1988
— Ukraine Strela-3 (x6, Russian) Tsyklon-3 Plesetsk, Russia 28 September 1991
— Russia Kosmos 2175 Soyuz-U Plesetsk, Russia 21 January 1992
9 Iran Omid Safir-2 Semnan, Iran 2 February 2009
10 North Korea 光明星3号 银河3号 西海SLC, NK 12 Dec, 2012

How come Pakistan is not in this list, when even Israel, Iran and North Korea have SLV's? Pakistani's claim they have one of the worlds best missile technology's and still don't have a SLV. How can someone explain this?

 

[gambit]

goodHow come South Koreans can never make this work?

You may use this as somehow a sign of superiority that really benefit no one. And I shall use mine: semicon.

Name one significant North Korean contributor to the semicon industry that benefits the world.

 

[T-Rex]

You may use this as somehow a sign of superiority that really benefit no one. And I shall use mine: semicon.

Name one significant North Korean contributor to the semicon industry that benefits the world.

First they have to think about their existence, they don't want what happened to the native indians to happen to them. I won't blame them if they don't think about benefiting the world at this point of time. After the greed of uncle sam and its minions is taken care of I'm sure they will think about the world.

 

[Skull and Bones]

Congrats, hopefully they won't turn it into ICBM. Or maybe i'm hoping too much.

 

[faithfulguy]

Congrat to North Korea from USA. Whatever the issue is with North Korea, its something that S Korea and its neighbors should deal with. America should seek only trade and cultural exchanges with N Korea.

Frankly, if America have not treated N Korea like an enemy, N Korea might not have developed nukes.

 

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[W.11]

congratulations, people make too much fun f north korea, have to say, they are too much underrated nation

 

[W.11]

How come Pakistan is not in this list, when even Israel, Iran and North Korea have SLV's? Pakistani's claim they have one of the worlds best missile technology's and still don't have a SLV. How can someone explain this?

maybe pakistan is not even seeking missile technology any more after we developed missiles to cover entire india, in era of corruption and pakistan in economic troubles, i dont see it happening