It looks a little heavy to get to space.
Posted on 04/12/2012 4:42:54 PM PDT by gandalftb
North Korea launched a three-stage rocket from a missile base near the west coast city of Sinuiju today, claiming that it was carrying a weather satellite of purely civilian use.
Its projected trajectory was almost due south on a course 150 miles east of Shanghai. The second stage of the rock was to splash down east of the Philippines, which prompted Manila to cancel northbound flights as a precaution.
Initial network news reports said the rocket failed during flight.
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The Unha-3 rocket with the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite payload launched from the Sohae launch site at Tongch’ang-dong.
The Kwangmyongsong-3 is a 100 kg box-shaped satellite
1.4 x 0.6 x 0.7m in size with body-mounted solar panels.
Unha-3 is a three stage vehicle; stage 1 is 2.40m in diameter, stage 2 is about 1.5m in diameter, and stage 3 is about 1.2m in diameter.
The first two stages were to fly south on an azimuth that would lead to an 88 degree inclination orbit; the third stage was expected to make a yawed burn that if successful will result in a 500 km, 97.4 deg inclination sun-synchronous orbit.
Where is that Laser Beam 747 parked????
I’ll bet a lot of the locals went in during the night and siphoned off some of the fuel to burn in their cars.
The rocket, named Unha-3
Should have called it Kaboom-3
It looks a little heavy to get to space.
Yeah, rocks aren't extremely flight-worthy over long distances. Even money says Carney tells the Press ODrama made it fail with the power of his mind and concentration.
Looks like it failed upon exiting the Yellow Sea area, right about where it would make sense to intercept it if you were a Japanese AEGIS destroyer captain.
The bozo invited the world media and they just embarrassed themselves to the world again....
Clinton Democrats negotiating with Bernard Schwartz to get him in touch with NK.
I wonder what will happen to the scientists involved. Weren’t the olympic athletes, who didn’t bring home the gold, subjected to some sort of punishment?
Will North Korea’s newspapers call it a success?
I wonder how many heads will roll and how many executions will happen due to this epic fail?
I’m seeing two conflicting reports:
A reported failure at T+90 seconds (first stage failure and possible shoot down intercept)
A reported impact 130 km S of Phillipines (second stage failure)
First stage failed 90 to 120 seconds into launch.
Ha ha ha! Kim Jung (Fa)il!!!
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