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POPSSouth Korea Launches First Rocket Into Space Your request is being processed... South Korea Launches First Rocket Into Space digg Share this on Facebook Huffpost - South Korea Launches First Rocket Into Space stumble reddit del.ico.us ShareThis RSS JIN-MAN LEE | 08/25/09 07:44 AM | AP I Like ItI Don’t Like It Read More: Korean Satellite, South Korea, South Korea First Rocket, South Korea Rocket, Space Ministry, Space Race, World News Retweet this story! The South Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1, South Korea's first space rocket, takes off from the launch pad at the Naro Space Center, at a beach in Goheung, south of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009. The country's first rocket blasted off into space Tuesday following an aborted attempt last week and just months after its rival North Korea drew international ire for its own launch. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Choi Jae-koo) Get Breaking News Alerts never spam * Share * Print * Comments GOHEUNG, South Korea — South Kor
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POPSNASA's mission: Can we live on the moon? The poles have areas of perpetual sunlight and perpetual shade. The sunlight would be useful as a source of solar power for colonists. The shaded areas may feature deposits of ice that have been locked up for billions of years. Such ice could be used not just as a source of water. Through electrolysis, it could be broken down into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen could be used both for respiration and to make rocket fuel for trips back and forth to Earth. But there's no definitive proof ice is there. The possible presence of water on the moon "is a hotly and passionately debated topic," Tooley said.
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POPSDefying world powers, N. Korea conducts nuke test The U.N. Security Council was meeting later Monday in New York to discuss what President Barack Obama called Pyongyang's "blatant defiance" of resolutions banning the regime from developing weapons of mass destruction. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown condemned the test as a "danger to the world." Russia's Foreign Ministry called it "a serious blow to international efforts" to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. French officials said they would push for new sanctions, and even traditional Pyongyang ally China said it was "resolutely opposed" to the test, which Russian officials estimated yielded a powerful 10- to 20-kiloton blast — enough to flatten a city and far more than North Korea managed in a 2006 atomic test.
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POPSOh-for-three ->->-> These Guys Really Suck Update. The wags are out. “Paul” writes: According to the US Navy the highly unique North Korean satellite has entered sub-aquatic orbit in the Pacific Ocean , and is transmitting melodies of the immortal revolutionary paeans Song of General Kim Il-sung and Song of General Kim Jong-il on a 15 kHz acoustic channel. ;) Seriously, the best thing about this blog are the readers. That is pure genius, right down to the frequency.
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POPSWorld Defying N Korea Launches Rocket
That defiant rascal Kim Il showed the world he does not give a damn about the worlds’ threats. And now we will all be reminded of just how ineffective the world’s leaders are against this little tyrant. Japan had issued bold threats to shoot the missile down if it entered its airspace and yet when the missile was reported to ‘harmlessly’ sail over Japan’s northern tip of its main island, the government issued only a verbal condemnation. The problem with issuing threats and then not following through is that threats become meaningless. They only serve to demonstrate how weak the threatening party is. How will the U.S. react? How about China? Will they issue ‘verbal condemnation’ as well? There really isn’t much we can legally do against Kim that hasn’t already been done and none of that has worked. Short of taking military action against him, which I am sure to him would make his sick twisted little life seem worthwhile, all we are willing to do is threaten.
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POPSUPDATE: North Korea Launches Long-Range Rocket UPDATE: U.N. Security Council to Hold Emergency Session Over N. Korea Launch http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512586,00.html Both the US State Department and the Japanese government confirmed the launch had taken place. It was not immediately clear if it was a long-range version of the rocket, which is capable of hitting the US. International pressure had mounted in recent days to halt the launch at Musudan-ri on the north-east coast. North Korea says its intentions are peaceful and it was launching an "experimental communications satellite". But the US and North Korea's neighbours believe it is a cover for testing the regime's long-range missile technology in defiance of UN resolutions.
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POPSIran Missile Experts in North Korea: Japanese Prepare To Intercept Illegal Missile As tensions increase ahead of the rocket launch, Japan's Air Self-Defense Force began deploying units capable of shooting down a rocket to the northern prefectures of Akita and Iwate. Early today, units carrying Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles left a base in central Japan and will arrive at the northern prefectures on Monday, according to Japan's national broadcaster NHK. On Friday Tokyo gave its military the green light to shoot down any incoming North Korean rockets. Pyongyang has said that it will launch a communications satellite over northern Japan between April 4 and April 8, but the US and its allies in the region believe the secretive regime is actually planning illegally to test a long-range Taepodong-2 missile that could reach North America. Japanese media claimed that spy satellites have photographed the nose cone of a long-range North Korean rocket on its launch pad.
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POPSNorth Korea warns against U.N. action on rocket "What he is doing right now in (these) provocations is ... seeing to what point he can push the rest of the world to get concessions to be able to continue the regime," he said. I'd say N Korea can probably do what ever it wants....leadership in the US would cave to a one-armed robber with a nurff bat and the UN is as potent as a neutered dog.
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POPSHey Hillary: How’s That “Smart Power" Diplomacy Working Out For You? After Japan's transport ministry ordered airlines and shipping companies operating in the area to take precautionary measures, Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways said they would alter flight paths on several European and other routes. Speculation has been mounting for weeks that North Korea was about to put its hitherto unreliable missile technology to the test. The regime suffered a setback in 2006 when a Taepodong-2 missile – theoretically capable of reaching Alaska – blew up moments into its flight. • Pyongyang says response would be act of war • Regional tensions rise over missile launch In response, Japan and the US have jointly developed a ballistic missile defence system that includes interceptor missiles on board ships and Patriot missiles dotted around Tokyo. But experts believe that a rocket capable of launching a satellite into orbit may be too high to intercept.
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POPSNASA's First Planet-Hunting Telescope Heads Into Space NASA has successfully launched its first planet-hunting telescope, Kepler. The rocket launch took place in Cape Canaveral, Florida just before 4am GMT on Friday night. It will spend 3½ years orbiting the sun as it watches 100,000 stars situated near the Cygnus and Lyra constellations, between 600 and 3,000 lights year away. It will watch for any dimming, or winks, in the stellar brightness that might be caused by planets orbiting stars in a 'habitable zone'. Scientists are not looking for planets holding life, but Earth-like planets where liquid water could be present on the surface. Astronomers already have found more than 300 planets orbiting other stars, but these are largely inhospitable gas giants such as Jupiter. Bill Borucki, Kepler's principal scientist, said: 'It was just magnificent. It looked like a star was being formed in the sky. 'Everybody was delighted, everybody was screaming, "Go Kepler!"'
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POPS Defense: A Disarmingly Low Priority "I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems." If only our enemies would do the same. In his address to Congress Tuesday night, the president neglected to mention the 17,000 additional troops being sent to Afghanistan. The only mention of national defense, in fact, was a pledge to "reform our defense budget so that we're not paying for Cold War-era weapons systems we don't use." We may get the chance. An increasingly belligerent Russia and an ambitious China have been expanding their forces. A Russian-built reactor in Iran has just gone live as the mullahs show their global reach with a satellite launch. North Korea is preparing a launch of its Taepodong 2 intercontinental ballistic missile.
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