Cross-posted from TotalWonkerr.com. Few things are more curious than how senior Russian officials have described the more spectacular North Korean missile and nuclear developments of recent years. Compared to Japan, South Korea, and the U.S., the Russians are outliers. First, recall the multiple missile launches of July 5, 2006. The synoptic view is that North …
DPRK: Unha-2 Trajectory Constrained
by | 2009-04-07 | 2 Comments
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 contrails are normally produced. The graph above, which I calculated from that image and the …
Carnegie Conference Day 2
by | 2009-04-07 | 2 Comments
These things are endurance tests. I’ve been twittering the interesting stuff, from Linton Brooks saying the US should ratify the CTBT to Rich Mies endorsing a declaratory posture of last resort. So are other folks. If you find people, post them in the comments.
DPRK: Ground Truth
by | 2009-04-07 | 23 Comments
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 the West. (I should mention that the flare at the of the rocket’s contrail is …
