After decades of satellite surveillance by foreign governments and analysts, North Korea has sent its first spy satellite on a global orbit with a message to the world: we can watch you too.

After decades of satellite surveillance by foreign governments and analysts, North Korea has sent its first spy satellite on a global orbit with a message to the world: we can watch you too.

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    ICBM are both an easier and harder task than putting satellites into orbit.

    Easier in that the math and fuel requirements are a lot easier if you don’t need a stable orbit so much as a trajectory.

    Harder in that your payload is likely considerably heavier if you want to make the ICBM worth the cost.

    To use video game terminology: the two are different branches of the same tech tree with a potential join for an endgame super weapon (rods from god)

    • GhysteEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      It’s still a lot of the same math. A successful launch like this is a lot learned for all applications.

    • ScubusEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      If the game goes to k3 you eventually get rkms and instant death mode where your enemies martydom with a vacuum decay