I'd fire the guy who allowed this to happen. That's why we have these things.. They are designed to shoot down stuff.
Posted on 02/08/2016 11:26:48 AM PST by familyop
TOKYO (AP) -- Here's a bit of Super Bowl trivia: North Korea's newest satellite passed almost right over the stadium just an hour after it ended. Whatever motives Pyongyang may have about using its rocket launches to develop nuclear-tipped long-range missiles, it now has two satellites circling the Earth, according to NORAD, the North American Aerospace Command, which monitors all satellites in orbit. Both of the Kwangmyongsong, or "Shining Star," satellites complete their orbits in about 94 minutes and based on data released by international organizations tracking them, the new one passed almost right over Levi's Stadium about an hour after the Super Bowl ended.
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It should have been blown off the launch pad with Tomahawk missiles, if we have any left.
surely we can do something to destroy the flippin’ thing.
How big that satellite, what exactly does that satellite do?
Looks like we received quite a bit of international trade and government special interest propaganda about North Korea over the past few years, much like the propaganda about Iran. NORAD also confirmed a successful launch of a N. Korean satellite in 2012.
The environmental impact statements for launch clearance would take months to be reviewed and most likely rejected.
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Approximately 400 pounds, or about twice the size of the one they launched in 2012. Supposedly has some sort of crude “earth measurement” equipment on board, but I haven’t heard of any detected downlink signals (so far) and quite frankly, the Norks don’t care if it sends back any data or not. The “satellite launch” was simply cover for testing technology that can be used in an ICBM, capable of targeting the US with a nuke.
Based on the current “size” of their so-called satellites, NK’s ability to put a nuke on an ICBM is marginal, at best. But they are making progress, and they will master the technology in the not-too-distant future.
By comparison, a typical U.S. spy satellite (which we put into orbit on a regular basis) is about the size/weight of a Greyhound bus.
Thank you.
Next the Norks to launch a starving peasant into space. If successful, they’ll try a Puppymonkeybaby.
That’s been done before. Sending a man to the sun (at night) and returning him safely to the earth.
I'd fire the guy who allowed this to happen. That's why we have these things.. They are designed to shoot down stuff.
I am surprised we didn’t use it as practice from the middle of the pacific.
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