The general public will likely never know just what caused a North Korean rocket to crash and burn on Friday (April 13), one expert says. (Talk about Friday the 13th!)
North Korea went ahead with the launch of its long-range Unha-3 rocket despite warnings from the United States and other nations, which viewed the event as a thinly disguised military missile test. The Unha-3 was supposed to deliver an Earth-observing satellite to orbit, according to North Korean officials, but it broke apart and pitched into the sea shortly after liftoff.
While American intelligence officials may already know what went wrong, the rest of us will probably never get the full story, according to Brian Weeden, a technical adviser with the Secure World Foundation and a former orbital analyst with the U.S. Air Force.
Well, I guess we'll just have to wait and see!
-Source http://www.space.com/news/
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