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Forum:	ESA - JAXA - China - International
Topic:	North Korean rocket and satellite launches

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]The Korean Central News Agency of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) describes the satellite, known as Kwangmyongsong-3, as an Earth-observing satellite, [URL=http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/04/north-korea-gets-ready-to-launch.html]reports[/URL] [i]Nature[/i]. <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]The satellite looks remarkably similar to South Korea's first satellite, which was launched in 1992, but there's no way to tell what it's actual capabilities might be, says Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a rocket enthusiast. The one thing McDowell is sure of is that it would make a lousy spy satellite. "We're talking kilometre or, at best, hundred-metre resolution," he says. In other words, they would be better off doing their spying on Google Earth.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>[/B][/QUOTE]
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