Track the out of control North Korean satellite here!

Looks like it's flying against the traffic. Normally, they should go east to west if they took advantage of the earth's spin.

ermm.. taptaptap..wtf

That would be insane if it collided with another satellite

Dr. Astro is aiming his death ray at it as we speak.

I'm not sure why everyone's making a big deal of this (not to discredit your thread OP, we should keep this pinned and track it out of curiosity), but the satellite is in orbit and fine.

Polar orbit as opposed to equatorial. Not possible to take advantage of earth's spin from launch site in NK. A significant achievement.

that is it! panic sex, everyone!

hmm, seems to stay away from Europe. Me no care.

so it is still up there

I honestly feel like they did the launch as a way of testing ballistic range capabilities rather than launch a satellite.

"Launching a Satellite", seems to be more of a cover story than anything. I could very well be wrong though haha.

is it going back to korea?

could be right...

Amen bro!

Tin hats everywhere else though :)

I agree

But thats how things are done nowadays days, for example NATO uses Syrian chemical weapons as a pretext to place Patriot missiles in Turkey, something they were itching to do for a long time

All countries play these games

Then I pray I am wrong haha.




Agreed, I view it all as a chess game. Each action is either a whole chess piece or a fraction of one. This launch is merely a "knight" performing 1 move to test itself out before actual use.

Interesting how you mention Syria and Turkey because that is EXACTLY what I thought when reading it all.

Especially with the phosphorous bombing media attention.

Gotta wonder what the NK's would have done when they saw the opening to inner earth with their satellite.

Looks like it's flying pretty straight to me?

watch the altitude it appears to be climbing steady not falling (yet)

Look out!!! it might hit...South Korea...

Anyone figure out at what time it will be back down?

That is where Kim was born..

The East to West orbit makes no sense? AND IT IS ABOUT TO GO WEST OF WA.D.C. if this simulator can be believed.
Someone said it was a Pole to Pole orbit ?
Why not, I guess, but I thought that all satellites went with the spin or were stationary ?

looks like its starting to drop since i posted last!

I would not be suprised if it got evaporated over the Caribean and fell into the Atlantic @ Florida.

its gone......

Yes it is in a polar orbit. This is the kind of orbit track recon/spy satellite use. As the sat travels North and South the Earth rotates underneath slowly, allowing the sat to cover every part of the planet.

A vehicle in space orbits around the mass of Earth. It doesn't matter what direction or speed, it will always be orbiting in a circle around the center mass.

A geostationary satellite orbits at an altitude where the speed required to maintain that orbit is keeping it looking at the same part of Earth at all times. Essentially orbiting at the same speed as the Earth is rotating.

It's going down, I think.

SPEED [mi/s]:
4.76
AZIMUTH:
356.3
N
ELEVATION:
-14.2

wtf i dont see it anymore anywhere

Also, geostationary satellites by their nature have to orbit around the equator.