After western sources already indicated failure during an early part of flight, the North korean State press agency KCNA now also acknowledges failure to reach orbit, indicating a problem with the second stage as the cause. More precisely: "losing thrust due to the abnormal starting of the second-stage engine after the separation of the first stage during the normal flight" http://www.kcna.kp/en/article/q/7142df36a42436897659ab36722d0082.kcmsf Yonhap indicates the crash site (with what appears to be a rocket stage recovered) as "200 km west" of Eocheongdo island: https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20230418005560325 That would match well with area A from Navigational Warning HYDROPAC 1779/23, the splash-down zone of the first stage (see map: https://twitter.com/Marco_Langbroek/status/1663839730675470338). If the second stage failed to ignite, both the spent first stage and the stage two/three and payload stack could have ended up here. The KCNA report states that they used a new rocket, "Chollima-1", and names the payload as "Malligyong-1", which if Google Translate doesn't fool me means something like "Grand View-1". - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrackcam_at_langbroek.org launchtower: http://launchtower.langbroek.org Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Twitter: _at_Marco_Langbroek ----- _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list https://lists.seesatmail.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Wed May 31 2023 - 03:05:02 UTC
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