You may wish to consider that many people consider any retrograde orbit is Sun-synchronous. I know that this is the policy of Spaceflight Now, the online news site. Maybe the same thing is happening with North Korean statements - and add in translation problems as well! Phillip Clark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Molczan" <ssl3molcz@rogers.com> To: <seesat-l@satobs.org> Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2012 8:18 AM Subject: RE: North Korea satellite: NOTAMs inconsistent with claimedsun-synchronous orbit >I have refined and plotted the different ascent trajectories that I >discussed last week: > > http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/N.Korea_2012_launch.png > > Had North Korea claimed the orbit was near-polar, without adding the > sun-synchronous claim, then the NOTAMs would be > consistent. Given North Korea's historical lack of credibility, and > considering that the sun-synchronous claim was > attributed by KCNA to "a vice director of the Space Development Department > of the Korean Committee for Space Technology > (KCST)", I believe that the most reasonable interpretation is that they > are lying about this being a satellite launch, > which has been betrayed by the incompetence of their propagandists in > over-reaching in their cover story. > > My earlier post is here: > > http://satobs.org/seesat/Apr-2012/0011.html > > Ted Molczan > > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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