[FPSPACE] Nice one Iran

[John Locker]

On that subject is anyone aware of a long  range missile test by Korea 
yesterday ??

John



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Gottschalk" <kgottschalk at uwc.ac.za>
To: "Friends & Partners FPSPACE" <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 1:22 PM
Subject: [FPSPACE] Nice one Iran


>>>> "Charles Vick" <cpvick at globalsecurity.org> 02/03/09 2:35 PM >>>
> Basically its a redesigned Taep'o-dong-1
>
>   This means that Iran successfully launched a satellite using the N
> Korean  Taep'o-dong-1 before North Korea did!
> Is that a world first, for a client to succeed before the vendor
> country has?
>
>  Now that they have the status symbol of a home-launched satellite,
> that gives the Iranian Govt. a substitute macho symbol for the atomic
> bomb they were attempting to make until 2003. Presumably they will, as
> the declining oil & gas prices permit, start launching one satellite per
> year for weather, reconnaisance, & communications.
>
> Keith
>


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