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NKorea satellite appears dead: scientist

Monday, December 17, 2012 20:02
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A SATELLITE launched with fanfare last week by a defiant North Korea appears to be dead as no signal can be detected, a US-based astrophysicist who monitors spaceflights says.
The United States and its Asian allies have acknowledged that North Korea succeeded on Wednesday in putting an object into orbit that the communist state said was observing the Earth and airing patriotic songs.

Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics says the satellite is clearly in orbit but that no songs can be heard.

“To the best of our knowledge, the satellite isn’t operating,” he said

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