NK successfully launches an orbital payload

[Capt Worley PE]

The rocket was launched just before 10 a.m. (0100 GMT), according to defense officials in South Korea and Japan, and was more successful than a rocket launched in April that flew for less than two minutes.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said that it "deployed an object that appeared to achieve orbit", the first time an independent body has verified North Korean claims.

More at: http://www.reuters.c...E8BB02K20121212

This is interesting. They violate UN sanctions, and may have a viable ICBM platform for a nuke (which, they don't seem to have mastered yet).

 

[knight1fox3]

 

[Capt Worley PE]

 

[Master slacker]

There are YouTube videos of people getting stuffed animals into orbit with the video captured on an iPhone. north korea is nothing but an e-thug.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Looks like the satellite is tumbling and not in control.

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