North Korea’s first spy satellite is active and lit
A space science expert announced that North Korea's first spy satellite is on and operational and capable of moving. |
According to the international group Tasnim News Agency
, A space science expert said North Korea’s first spy satellite is up and running and its movements have been observed.
He made these statements while recently changes were observed in the orbit of this satellite, which showed Pyongyang is successfully controlling this satellite, but its capabilities are still unknown.
Marco Landbroek, a space science researcher at the University of Technology in the Netherlands, stated that at the moment we can definitely say that this satellite is on and working.
According to the information collected by the Space Operations Center, this satellite has had maneuvers and movements from February 19 to 24 to gather the closest point of the satellite’s orbit to the center of the Earth. This maneuver shows that the satellite is operational and not disabled, and that North Korea has full control over it, a matter that has been the subject of many disputes in the past.
spying and reconnaissance satellite into the earth’s orbit, and this satellite was successfully placed in the earth’s orbit after 12 minutes. North Korea This spy satellite was described as representing a “new era of space power” for this country.
News A North Korean official stated that Pyongyang plans to launch more reconnaissance satellites in the near future. Launching more satellites into Earth orbit will improve our ability and capacity to obtain information from areas adjacent to North Korea, particularly in South Korea..
North Korea has already made two unsuccessful attempts to launch its first reconnaissance satellite in May and August last year. The previous operation of launching this reconnaissance satellite into Earth orbit on May 31 of this year failed due to a malfunction in the start of the engine of the second platform, and the remains It poured into the sea.
North Korea claimed that it was able to capture images using its new spy satellite reach the White House and some sensitive US military sites.
After this launch, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder stated that North Korea’s spy satellite has reached close to Earth’s orbit.
But following the launch of this satellite by North Korea, the South Korean authorities announced that they will suspend part of the military agreement with Pyongyang.
After this launch, North Korea will mean any interference in the country’s satellite activities. He read the declaration of war and said: In case of any attack on its strategic facilities, it will be necessary to use the country’s war deterrence power.
a while ago Send a military surveillance satellite into Earth orbit and start building military drones.
North Korea has repeatedly tried to launch Earth observation satellites, two of which appear to have been successfully placed into orbit, the last being in 2016.
North Korea has been under numerous UN sanctions since 2006 due to its nuclear program and ballistic missiles. These sanctions include banning the development and expansion of ballistic missiles. This technology was used to launch Pyongyang’s first spy satellite into Earth orbit and has been used to test dozens of ballistic missiles over the past 20 months. America has repeatedly warned that Pyongyang is ready to conduct its seventh nuclear test.
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