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South Korea's First Rocket Fails To Reach Set Orbit
Matt_dk writes "The first satellite launched by South Korea failed to reach its designated orbit pattern on Tuesday, the NY Times is reporting. The two-staged KSLV-1 rocket, built in cooperation with Russia, failed to deliver the 100-kilogram oceanic and atmospheric research satellite into its target orbit. The rocket was launched from the Naro Space Center, 300 miles south of the capital Seoul. 'The failure to push the satellite into its intended orbit was announced by Ahn Myong-man, the minister of education, science and technology, at a news conference. Mr. Ahn gave no further details. But South Korean news outlets, citing unidentified sources, said the satellite broke away from the rocket about 22 miles farther from the Earth than had been intended.'"
Sometimes you just say stuff to get 1st post too!
LOL @ slant's.
3 words: Glass Parking Lot. Even if NK had regime change its people would never be able to survive in the modern world for at least 2-3 generations. So, nuke them, turn the area into low-cost housing for China. Everybody wins. Even North Korea - they finally get to be justified in calling the rest of the world dangerous imperialists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Where are the rocket scientists?
The imported Russians? Generation Buran?
South Korea is basically a 3rd world country that had a military dictatorship drag it into the real world a few decades ago.
The problem is they have no real basis for hi tech. They got a lot of yesterday tech of Japan and the USA and made it cheaper, faster and better. White goods, big ships, cheap cars, big lcd, big plasma, faster chips.
But on the whole they have a MS Explorer economy. Something will drift down one day from 'outside' and they can build on it.
ww2 Germans had the fear of defeat.
ww2 Russians had the fear of defeat and working in the bad gulag above the arctic circle with rocks rather then in the good gulag with rockets.
US scientists had the fear of the Soviets and really good Germans.
Russians had the fear of the Soviets and the USA and less good Germans.
South Africa had the bush wars.
India had Pakistan.
Pakistan had India.
Whats South Korea got? A US nuclear shield, hi tech toys and a lots of MS.
Like young Americans are learning, building your life on
Windows is expensive and useless in the real world.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"