Following the successful launch of North Korea’s Taipodong-3 (Uhna-3) three-stage rocket which successfully orbited North Korea’s first confirmed satellite into a near polar, Sun-synchronous orbit on 12 December, experts now believe that the payload, the Kwangmyongsong 3-2 spacecraft, may not be operating. No spacecraft transmissions have been received to date by independent monitors, while the satellite has been imaged visually and via tracking radars as “tumbling” in orbit. At circa 100kg, the Kwangmyonsong 3-2 was notionally to have been used for Earth observation.
Kwangmyongsong 3-2 is in orbit but is “tumbling” and not transmitting
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