Flu Terminology 101
With the discovery of a new and deadly flu virus in Mexico that might become a worldwide pandemic, I wanted to familiarize myself with the terminology used and bandied about so much in the media. This is the flu naming…
Geoff Forden
Writing on ACW 2008–2010 · 142 posts
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DPRK: U'nha-2 Powered Trajectory
Jan Stupl’s contour of pixel intensity of the U’nha-2 contrail image Jan Stupl, who is a Science Fellow at Stanford’s CISAC this year and who has done an amazing experimental and theoretical analysis of the US Airborne Laser, produced a…
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DPRK: Cobra Ball vs SBX
A number of us have been wondering why the US didn’t send the Sea-Based X-band (SBX) radar out to see (sorry, I couldn’t resist that!) the Unha-2’s launch. One of the best arguments I’ve heard comes from Victoria Samson who…
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On the Technology Campaign Trail
If you haven’t seen it yet, you should check out the “Video Tours of Iran’s Nuclear Facilities” available at the ISISnuclearIran website. I frankly didn’t find them as interesting as the similar in appearance videos of Iranian missile production facilities.…
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DPRK: What Difference does a Minute Make?
click on the image for a larger version Or, to be more precise, 44 seconds. For those of you very few who can possibly muster enough interested in reading a third posting on this subject, DigitalGlobe has just told Globalsecurity.org…
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DPRK: ICBM or Space Launch Vehicle?
click on the image for a larger version Unfortunately, there was a mistake in the range of the original plots. (These things happen when you rush to get things put up on the blog as soon as possible. Im sorry…
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DPRK: Unha-2 Trajectory Constrained
click on the image for a larger version The amazing satellite image by DigitalGlobe and presented by GlobalSecurity.org of the Unha-2 in flight can be used to determine the portion of the powered trajectory as it crosses those altitudes where…
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DPRK: Ground Truth
Images from the ground of the Unha-2 launch are starting to come in. Besides an amazing satellite image by DigitalGlobe and presented by GlobalSecurity.org of the the Unha-2 in flight, there are North Korean television images starting to appear in…
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DPRK: Systemic vs. Technological Failures
Saturn interstage falling off, click here to watch the complete video I wish I knew what the 2006 Tae’podong-2 looked like. My guess is that it was very different, at least in the details, than yesterday’s Unha-2 launch. Why do…
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DPRK: Blip on a Screen
Screen Capture from a FNN Video, click here for the entire video. So, for about five minutes this morning, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces thought North Korea had launched its satellite rocket. (Good thing they didn’t launch anything in response.) One…