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I haven't seen much about this other than they did launch the rocket. Have our scientists been able to tell yet whether it was a preliminary attempt at creating an orbital satellite launcher or an ICBM
wubblie":1eowevdn said:The Russians just confirmed the satellite is in orbit.
aphh":3u5quuvn said:On second note, Pyongyang being located at 39N means they could intersect with ISS orbit relatively easily. If they had a launch vehicle, that is.
MeteorWayne":1drja0my said:Well, once they can put something in orbit
MeteorWayne":36weiv5s said:Or maybe not, since it didn't make it to the next continent and splashed in the middle of the Pacific...
I was watching the Nasa channel last night on TV and it showed we put a satellite in orbit in 1958!drwayne":2fls38a9 said:Keep in mind that the mechanics/timing/sequence of staging is quite complex, and it took us a while to get it right.
Wayne
CommonMan":2t6yybik said:I was watching the Nasa channel last night on TV and it showed we put a satellite in orbit in 1958!
MeteorWayne":1j2atv64 said:Actually, Explorer 1 discovered the Van Allen radiation belts, so you can't say it did nothing much
"The discovery of the Van Allen Belts by the Explorer satellites was considered to be one of the outstanding discoveries of the International Geophysical Year.
The acoustic micrometeorite detector detected 145 impacts of cosmic dust in 78,750 seconds. This leads for a twelve-day period to an impact rate of 8.0 × 10-3 impacts m-2 s-1.[19]"