I wonder what the capabilities of this satellite are. Knowing NK, it might just be a guy in a steel drum holding a disposable camera.
Without any sort of space suit, either. Just a frozen corpse with a little yellow Kodiak camera floating around in a barrel.
If you feel like it you can go down the amateur satellite tracking rabbithole. There is a blog run by a guy in Holland sattrack blogspot or something like that, I used to follow. He pretty much can tell you way more than you want to know about any satellite.
The DPRK has the technological capability for ICBMs. Regardless of everything else, their technical skills should not be underestimated.
Russia, the US, China, France, the UK, India, Israel, and Iran. That’s some rarified air the DPRK is standing with.
Um, no? The article you linked to shows that they’re planning to launch it, though they haven’t actually tried yet, let alone achieved a successful launch…?
Refresh, it was launched earlier today and the headline and article were updated.
Oh ok, thanks! That’s odd it would show the update for you earlier than me, it’s showing the updated information now.
AP does that a lot.
I would have thought they blew their budget on the first attempt. Even then, I wouldn’t have expected the satellite to be great. I’d be surprised if the third was decent.
