North Korea Claims that It Has Matured Its Rocket Technology that will “Guarantee” Successful Satellite Launch
I think this will be North Korea’s excuse to launch ICBM technology over neighboring countries by claiming they are satellite launches:
North Korea’s development of a high-thrust engine capable of carrying a rocket has provided a “sure guarantee” for the country to launch various satellites into orbit, according to state media Monday.
Pak Kyong-su, vice director of the National Aerospace Development Administration, made the remarks amid speculation the North is likely to put a military spy satellite into orbit by April.
In an interview by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Sunday on the occasion of the 14th anniversary of the North’s accession to the international outer space treaty, Pak said the North has made “steady” progress in the work to develop “multi-functional and high-performance” satellites.
Yonhap
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Hate to be the technician in nK that fails on that guarantee.
If this is true, North Korea would be in far better shape than Japan lol.
Japan’s new rocket made by Mitsubishi heavy industry (the same company that used Korean slaves and refuses to acknowledge it), failed to launch again after a second try.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/the-launch-of-japans-large-new-rocket-fails-after-a-second-stage-problem/?comments=1&comments-page=1
The funny thing is, their engineers just don’t have a clue why they can’t launch right now. And the really odd part of it all is that their new rocket offers not many clear advantages over the old one. Japanese media in panic mode with stories plastered all over the place saying they are falling behind the South Koreans scientifically. When South Korea was in the beginning stages of the rocket projects a lot of Japanese were laughing at the Koreans about how dumb they are, still not being able to launch a rocket into space when Japan already did that back in the 1950s (using US technology). South Korea employs only one-tenth of the engineers that Japan employs.
South Korea’s development of its space industry, building it from the ground up. From a laughingstock of the world to a legitimate space power.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/south-korea-relies-on-web-search-in-bid-to-catch-up-with-spacex-1.1892368
Well it seems the discussion has shifted to the H3 rocket.
To be fair, the Japanese are launching a completely new rocket, and even when reusing some parts there will be failures.
Even Korea’s Nuri rocket failed on its first try when the third stage cut off early and the mock satellite failed to reach orbit.
The Naro rockets that came before Nuri succeeded on the third and final try, even though the first stage was Russian manufactured.
Space rockets are complex and delicate things, however they do improve with experience.
TOK, but the two cases are different though.
The H3 rocket is at the bottom of ocean, so it can’t be recovered so the Japanese officials are saying they won’t be able to find out why the launch failed. Simply put, the project is now kaput. It’s one of the rare cases where a country that had the knowledge to send a rocket to space, suddenly can’t any longer. The decline is no surprise really considering their recent spectacular failures with their jet fighter projects (joint development with the US) and now begging UK and Italy to join them to develop a new fighter. Not to mention all those Japanese engineered ships that have broken up into pieces due to poor quality.
So much for the great DNA Japanese samurai engineering that they boasted for months that a new H3 rocket will compete with Space X. The anger, disappointment, shock, and things are so bad in Japan right now that they’re going back to their old ways again blaming Koreans. They’re attacking a Japanese reporter who dared to say the “launch was a failure”. The Japanese SNS is full of posts about this reporter supposedly being a rotten Korean race, which caused the launch failure by bringing the curse of failure. The reporter’s family is threatened with bodily harm and ostracization.
Now does this sound like the launch can be ‘rectified’ by correcting the launch issues?
Japan also opposed South Korea from joining the Artemis 1 team of countries led by the US. South Korea was allowed to join despite Japan’s opposition, and now Japan has to answer why they can’t even launch a rocket into space, yet expect to keep South Korea out of the group.