Posted on 04/12/2012 8:07:09 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
How failed North Korea rocket could lead to a fresh nuclear test
The UN Security Council is likely to rap North Korea for its rocket launch, and a defiant North Korea could respond with a nuclear test – following
By Don Kirk, Correspondent / April 12, 2012
North Korea’s vaunted long-range Unha 3 rocket roared off its launch pad early Friday, broke into several pieces and plunged into the Yellow Sea between South Korea and China slightly more than one minute later, South Korean defense officials said.
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North Korea is also expected to remain defiant while the United Nations Security Council meets Friday to consider how to respond. The Security Council basically has the choice of issuing a statement of “condemnation” of the launch or strengthening sanctions imposed after North Korea test-fired an earlier version of the rocket in April 2009 and then conducted its second underground nuclear test six weeks later.
“North Korea will get angry at the action of the UN, and they will use that as an excuse for another nuclear test,” says Mr. Kim.
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July 2006 they had one fail about 40 seconds after launch. At the time I suspected a structural failure or a motor failure. 40 seconds in was time enough to have burned off a fair amount of fuel (approx 1/3 of first stage burn time). So the vehicle would be significantly lighter. The engines are still pushing with the same thrust, F = ma so acceleration would be increasing and so would stress on the structure. Or it could've simply been a catastrophic failure of a rocket engine, pump, etc.
Then in April of 2009 they tried again. This time apparently (according to news sources) the first and second stages seemed to work ok. Maybe they worked out their problems?
Now they launch again and it fails 81 seconds in. Very similar to the 2006 failure? Near the end of the first stage burn, big thrust, lower mass, high stress on the vehicle. So what's different this time? What could cause more stress on the vehicle...hmmm... Maybe they were pushing against a more massive payload than in 2009? Something more along the lines of the mass of a dummy re-entry vehicle and dummy warhead rather than a simple comm satellite? I'm usually trusting by nature, but I'm suspicious of this.
July 2006 they had one fail about 40 seconds after launch. At the time I suspected a structural failure or a motor failure. 40 seconds in was time enough to have burned off a fair amount of fuel (approx 1/3 of first stage burn time). So the vehicle would be significantly lighter. The engines are still pushing with the same thrust, F = ma so acceleration would be increasing and so would stress on the structure. Or it could've simply been a catastrophic failure of a rocket engine, pump, etc.
Then in April of 2009 they tried again. This time apparently (according to news sources) the first and second stages seemed to work ok. Maybe they worked out their problems?
Now they launch again and it fails 81 seconds in. Very similar to the 2006 failure? Near the end of the first stage burn, big thrust, lower mass, high stress on the vehicle. So what's different this time? What could cause more stress on the vehicle...hmmm... Maybe they were pushing against a more massive payload than in 2009? Something more along the lines of the mass of a dummy re-entry vehicle and dummy warhead rather than a simple comm satellite? I'm usually trusting by nature, but I'm suspicious of this.
Sorry ‘bout the double post. Netscape is acting funky.
Paging Loral Space... Paging Bernard Schwartz...
-PJ
It was late first stage or early second stage.
Probably first stage.
The initial news report says that first and second stage boosters failed to separate.
IIRC, there is a lot more WWII footage of German V-2 rockets exploding, crashing, or going wild than there is of successful launches.
Do we let the Norks keep trying until they get it right?
Meanwhile, a lot of Nork rocket scientists & all their family members, are hanging by their thumbs tonight.
;^)
Hee Hee Hee. I'm suspecting devious activities
Flesh nukereal test?
Isn't it required that Kim Dim Sum now execute all of his top military leaders, scientists and engineers?
Yes, the piece of crap Gwangmyeonsong 3, was not that big, and very light only(would essentially) take up a small part of the Taepodong-2 payload. They would not let international journalists there either inspect or see footage of the satellite (piece of crap if you ask me) toy being place in the payload of the ICBM. One wonders what else was put in there. They could have weighted it down with other stuff significantly in the hopes that one day they can put in a nuclear warhead, so they needed to have the stress tests under such a weight parameter, and simply failed, so back to the drawing board (and execution perhaps for some).
< whatever “wuh wuh wuh wuh waaaah” is in Korean >
So the North Koreans only the stamina to last for 2 minutes before their missile came slumping down? I’m sure they are embarrassed!
Meanwhile, chief North Korean Cosmonaut, No-Long-Lif, from his training facility in Hamhung, commended the successful lift-off.
And all the missile scientists will be packed in the tunnel as observers.
First, Snake River Canyon, then space.
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