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 …
DPRK: Systemic vs. Technological Failures
by | 2009-04-06 | 30 Comments
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 I say that? Because I’m starting to see a pattern in North Korean and Iranian …
