Author Topic: Kwangmyongsong-3, Unha-3 launch, December 12 2012 (Read 487269 times)

Soheil · « **Reply #700 on:** 02/11/2013 01:21 pm »

Quote from: Steven Pietrobon on 02/05/2013 05:16 am

Unha 10 from 2017 to launch geostationary satellites and crewed vehicles. Mass of 400 t.

JimO · « **Reply #701 on:** 02/13/2013 03:25 am »

my new article on nk rocketry
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/12/16941504-history-provides-clues-to-next-steps-in-north-koreas-nuclear-program?lite

Prober · « **Reply #702 on:** 02/15/2013 02:19 am »

Quote from: JimO on 02/13/2013 03:25 am

my new article on nk rocketry
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/12/16941504-history-provides-clues-to-next-steps-in-north-koreas-nuclear-program?lite

Jim you hearing anything about the north? Another major thing might happen in the next couple of days. South was reporting another nuke test possible.

Yarrah · « **Reply #703 on:** 02/15/2013 01:29 pm »

BBC: North Korea 'upgrading rocket launch site'

38 North: New Developments at the Tonghae Rocket Test Site

JimO · « **Reply #704 on:** 02/19/2013 12:03 pm »

Quote from: Yarrah on 02/15/2013 01:29 pm

BBC: North Korea 'upgrading rocket launch site'

38 North: New Developments at the Tonghae Rocket Test Site

Very good link, thanks! I am interested in the claim there are two near-identical control rooms at the General Satellite Control Center outside Pyongyang. I was unaware of that and saw no indication of it on our visit, but it could account for significant architectural differences between the room I saw in April and the room imaged in Nov-Dec 2012.

Comet · « **Reply #705 on:** 03/06/2013 05:58 am »

DPRK has submitted registration papers for the recently launched Kwangmyongsong 3-2 satellite to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs.

http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/pdf/reports/regdocs/ser662E.pdf

Prober · « **Reply #706 on:** 03/07/2013 01:04 pm »

Looks like this is back in the major news again.

ISNJH · « **Reply #707 on:** 03/18/2013 10:27 pm »

Looking over the videos from the December launch I noticed at one point on the main screen is what appears to be a feed of what looks like it might be from a Launch control room as seen in the attached picture. is it possible this is the real functional launch control room at Tongchang-ri where the rocket/missile is actually launched from?

As far as I can tell this glimpse was only visible in one released video but did not appear in any of the other launch videos released.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #708 on:** 03/20/2013 07:26 am »

That's quite possible ISNJH. There appears to be an actual console with buttons to push in front the launch crew, instead of just a keyboard and empty desks.

VDD1991 · « **Reply #709 on:** 09/24/2013 01:31 am »

Has there been any latest word on whether or not Kwangmyongsong-3 is functioning? A few days after being put into orbit, Kwangmyongsong-3 was reported to be tumbling in orbit, leading some satellite watchers to speculate that Kwangmyongsong-3 might be malfunctioning. Any reports of Kwangmyongsong-3 transmitting patriotic songs praising Kim il-Sung and Kim Jong-il?

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #710 on:** 09/24/2013 05:41 am »

Not a peep has been heard.

blister · « **Reply #711 on:** 03/03/2014 04:52 am »

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N. Korea internally promoting latest long-range rocket as ballistic missile
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2013/02/04/0200000000AEN20130204003400315.HTML

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Hwasong line also includes shorter-range scud missiles, which the country has produced since the 1980's.

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Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #712 on:** 03/04/2014 03:18 am »

The Hwasong-13 missile seems to be quite a different to the Unha-3 launch vehicle. Norbert Brügge suggests that the third stage of Hwasong-13 might be from Unha-3.

http://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets_1/Diverse/KN-08/

Websorber · « **Reply #713 on:** 03/22/2014 06:57 am »

Construction continues at the gantry and launch pad at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station (Tongchang-ri)

http://38north.org/2014/03/testsites031914/

ISNJH · « **Reply #714 on:** 07/31/2014 08:53 pm »

38North publishes new interactive reconstruction of Sohae launch pad.
http://38north.org/2014/07/sohaepano2/

plutogno · « **Reply #715 on:** 05/03/2015 09:18 am »

Kim Jong-un vows to launch more satellites into space
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11579921/Kim-Jong-un-vows-to-launch-more-satellites-into-space.html

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #716 on:** 05/04/2015 05:37 am »

Its been over two years since their last launch. I was starting to wonder if they had abandoned the program.

ISNJH · « **Reply #717 on:** 10/08/2015 07:08 pm »

New 3D panorama out now on 38North showing the launch control center at Sohae
http://38north.org/2015/10/sohaepano100515/

Vahe231991 · « **Reply #718 on:** 12/28/2021 09:46 pm »

According to Satflare, the third stage of the Unha/Paektusan-2 rocket used to launch the Kwangmyongsong-3 No. 2 satellite into orbit in December 2012 will re-enter the atmosphere on New Year's Eve, leaving only the Kwangmyongsong-3 Unit 2 in orbit. Two other objects associated with this launch (Catalog numbers 39028 and 39029) re-entered in August 2018 and last February.

Vahe231991 · « **Reply #719 on:** 09/13/2023 08:10 pm »

According to the Space-Track website, the Kwangmyonsong-3 Unit 2 satellite has decayed from orbit as of today.