In early February, the DPRK notified the international community of its intention to launch a satellite into space remote sensing of the Earth from 8 to 25 February. This news triggered protests from North Korea’s neighbors and the United States, fearing that under the guise of space activities Pyongyang tests ballistic missiles, long-range
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promised serious consequences, and the Japanese authorities have deployed on the islands Patriot missile system, threatening to shoot down the North Korean missile launch on the stage. On the eve of leaked information, that North Korea has decided to speed up the launch date of the rocket with the satellite due to weather conditions, so it is likely that it will be held on Sunday, is the opinion of the agency “Kyodo” expressed an unnamed senior Japanese Ministry of Defense employee.
“They are ready for launch, analyzed the weather conditions and decided to accelerate. Therefore, it is likely that it will take place on February 7, “- quoted by the source words
Although, according to the advance of the DPRK published flight plan, he was supposed to go away from the Japanese islands -. From north to south. Judging by the ground-based tracking and happened.
rocket Start took place at about 3.30 MSK, and within ten minutes of the satellite “kwangmyŏngsŏng program” It was placed in a high polar orbit
According to the North Korean television announced the launch of a fully successful and the outlet of the satellite on an almost circular orbit with a perigee of 494.6 km, apogee -. 500 km. The orbital inclination of 97.4 degrees set. “This is a sun-synchronous orbit. It is convenient for Earth observation. When the satellite is on this orbit, he sees the facilities under the same sun angle: easy to compare. That’s how the spy satellites and cell phones remote sensing (RS), “- said earlier” Gazeta.ru “Director of the Institute Ivan Moiseev Space Policy
Department of the satellite from the launch vehicle took place after 9 minutes, 46 seconds. run.
North Korea’s Central television showed pictures from the start. At this time, the North Korean missile troops and used the trick long used in missile launches around the world – put camera on the stage of the rocket, so she transferred images are deleted Earth. Speaker in pink national costume happily reported that these launches will continue in the future.
data tracking satellite, published by the Joint Space Operations Centre US are somewhat different: the parameters of the orbit is 466 to 501 km, the inclination – 97.5 degrees, while the booster stage left in orbit with parameters 432 to 502 km .
This means that North Korea actually managed to launch a second satellite, to check its performance may take a few days.
As soon as possible to start We reacted in the world. South Korean President called an emergency meeting, diplomats said the readiness of the UN Security Council urgently to gather, as it took the United States, South Korea and Japan.
These countries have accused North Korea of violating UN resolutions by 2006 year, which prohibits the country to conduct nuclear tests and ballistic missile launches. In violation of the resolution, North Korea last month has tested the bomb, which, according to the authorities themselves, was thermonuclear.
The DPRK insisted that space launches are carried out exclusively for scientific purposes. Four previous attempts to launch its own satellite date back to 1998, and only one attempt was completed successfully. Then the 30-kilogram satellite is trying to put into orbit by means of medium-range ballistic missile “Pekstusan” with the third stage, which did not work, and the satellite was lost.
Another two unsuccessful launches were held in 2006 and 2009. In April 2012, it launched a rocket “Unha-3″, which crashed 90 seconds of flight. The modifications made to the design of the rocket allowed in December 2012 to launch the first North Korean satellite, according to some sources, equipped with a camera and transmitting devices.
He reached an altitude of 500 km, but never gave any signal. For three years the authorities engaged in the modernization of the landfill Shohei in the west of the country – construction of new buildings and reconstruction of tower services to suit for higher launch. Increased activity at the launch site was spotted on satellite images taken in January 2016
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Start the 90-ton rocket, capable to bring into sun-synchronous orbit 100-kilogram satellite, on Sunday was recorded by Japan, South Korea, China and the US
Interestingly, eight minutes before that in Russia since the cosmodrome in Plesetsk launched rocket “Soyuz-2.1b” with the satellite “Glonass-M».
it is believed that the first stage of the North Korean rocket is four engines, identical to those that were in the Soviet ballistic missile R-17 (Scud). According to Japanese authorities, the first stage fell into the Yellow Sea after seven minutes after the launch. According to South Korean media reports, before the fall, it shattered into small fragments 270. This confirmed the hypothesis that it intentionally blown up to stage is not caught southerners, as happened in 2012.
According to the Japanese military, the second stage flew past the southern Japanese island of Okinawa and fell into the sea at 3.34 MSK. The third step was needed to give the desired satellite inclination (otherwise the second stage would have to fall to the Philippines). On the work of the satellite in orbit is not known, but experts suggest that its structure is similar to the first satellite, which was supposed to transmit patriotic songs at a frequency of 470 megahertz.
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