North Korea Satellite Launch

[ChrisSmolinski]

North Korea successfully launched a rocket yesterday, boosting the credentials of its new leader and stepping up the threat the isolated and impoverished state poses to opponents.

North Korea said the satellite would be broadcasting a mixture of songs in praise of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, and telemetry. The frequency was given as 470 MHz.

[Echo_One]

Thanks for the telemetry freq, Chris... I shall try to catch some - if at all possible.

Do we know of what it will be sending back in terms of telemetry?

Anybody copied it?

[Pigmeat]

The thing is tumbling out of control,heading back to earth. I wonder if it's solar panels are generating enough power in that situation to broadcast? Oh well,back to the Unicorn cave.

Hail to The Great Leader!

[mr. mike]

The great irony is that India denounced North Korea for launching a rocket....then launched a rocket itself.

[cmradio]

I'm rather impressed that a nation that can't even feed it's people without a handout can get something in stable orbit.

Did they buy that rocket on Ebay?

Peace!

[mr. mike]

I'm rather impressed that a nation that can't even feed it's people without a handout can get something in stable orbit.

They said the same thing about the USSR when they launched Sputnik....when national pride is on the line, you throw everything at it. It would have been far easier for them to buy a Russian rocket and just focus on the satellite, but the North Koreans had to show the Chinese that, yes, they too could fling things into orbit.

I like how it infuriated everybody.

[Echo_One]

In the case of the North Koreans, they had to get some kind of bird up there - it being the 100th birthday of Kim-Il-Sung - the nation's former leader and current president - even if he has actually been dead for twenty years!

Do we know any more details about the orbital path and if anyone has captured signals from it yet? I think i may have got something last night around 2007UTC on 468MHz - not far from the reported 470MHz

[ETM71]

I love that TerryGilliam-Pythonesque GIF, Chris. Too funny. 

[cmradio]

Do we know any more details about the orbital path and if anyone has captured signals from it yet? I think i may have got something last night around 2007UTC on 468MHz - not far from the reported 470MHz

Did the 470MHz figure take in to consideration Doppler shift?

I like how it infuriated everybody.

Same here. Most entertaining

Peace!

[Billy the Mountain]

2-line ElSets are out there.

Check <heavens-above.com> and <n2yo.com>.

Its NORAD number is 39026, IIRC.