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BREAKING! NASA Says N. Korean Rocket Launched Object Into Orbit
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It probably is a copy of Sputnik and just goes "beep, beep, beep.......".
Quoting: Just Some Guy So how do we find out exactly what kind of satellite they put up there? Quoting: Éireann They claim it's a weather satellite. It seems to have a polar orbit, probably sun-synchronous. Basically, three kinds of satellites use that sort of orbit; meteorological, mapping, and spy satellites. The former in order to monitor things like global temperature and improve weather forecast modeling, the latter two because it keeps the shadow angles the same on each pass and provides global coverage. I seriously doubt the north koreans put a satellite up there to check for global warming or see if polar bears are stranded on ice floats. The old Keyhole spy satellites (aka Big Bird) also used these kinds of orbits. It makes sense that they would start off using that kind of orbit for a spy satellite themselves - a polar orbit grants global coverage. Quoting: Dr. Astro Well, I don't see any problem with them having a weather satellite. Lord knows it helps with agriculture and lots of other info intensive matters. Good grief. Welcome to the 21st Century, NK. Good for you. But if you have any ideas of putting a bomb in orbit, I'll take back my congrats. Quoting: Éireann I seriously doubt it's actually a weather satellite, that's just a cover story, it's probably a spy satellite in the same vein as the keyhole satellites, but with most likely digital imaging instead of film. It's also a test of their rocket technology, so it's a precursor to putting a bomb on a rocket. They want to be sure the rocket works first so that the bomb doesn't come down on their own heads by accident.
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