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Satellite image of North Korea in December 2002. Captured by NASA with the Aqua satellite. Satellite imagery in North Korea is a knowledge-building tool in the field of North Korean studies. It enables researchers to produce data-based analyses in the agricultural, humanitarian, economic and military fields, in a country where access to the ...
Malligyong-1 (Korean: 만리경-1; Hanja: 萬里鏡-1, meaning Telescope-1) is a type of North Korean reconnaissance satellite. It is North Korea's first spy satellite. It is in a sun-synchronous orbit at about 500 kilometres (310 mi) altitude, and will provide a global optical imaging surveillance capability of several countries.
Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 was a polar-orbiting earth observation satellite that North Korea tried to launch 13 April 2012 from the Sohae Satellite Launching Station at Cholsan County in northwestern North Korea. The satellite was to be lifted by a Unha-3 carrier rocket. The satellite launch was timed to coincide with the centenary of Kim Il Sung's birth.
SEOUL (Reuters) -One of the stages of North Korea's satellite launch rocket exploded after separation on Tuesday, video captured by an South Korean astronomy observatory showed, in what some ...
SEOUL (Reuters) -Officials and experts around the world are seeking to determine whether North Korea's first spy satellite is operational as it orbits the earth after being launched on Tuesday, an ...
But North Korea has for its part accused the U.S. and South Korea of hypocrisy after the South Korean military successfully launched its first indigenous-built spy satellite in the United States ...
1980s. ( 1980s) Built by. North Korea. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. The Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground (동해위성발사장), also known as Musudan-ri ( Korean : 무수단리 ), [1] is a rocket launching site in North Korea. [2] [3] [4]
Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2 or Gwangmyeongseong-3 ho 2-hogi (Korean: 《광명성―3》호 2호기; Hancha: 光明星3號2號機; RR: Gwangmyeongseong-3 ho 2-hogi; MR: Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 ho 2-hogi; English: Bright Star-3 Unit 2 or Lodestar-3 Unit 2) was the first satellite successfully launched from North Korea, an Earth observation spacecraft that was launched on 12 December 2012, 00:49 UTC ...