I found several articles that may be of interest on a website "devoted
to analysis of North Korea." The site <http://38north.org/> is a program
of the US-Korea Institute at SAIS (School of Advanced International
Studies, Johns Hopkins University).
The first was published in April, and has as detailed a description and
photographs of what was probably the engineering prototype of the
satellite that was successfully orbited:
http://38north.org/2012/09/nhansen091212/.
The second, published shortly before the launch, discusses GeoEye
satellite imagery that shows preparations at the launch site:
http://38north.org/2012/12/sohae121112/.
A third article shows the launch trajectory and has a link to a KMZ file
that illustrates approximately the first half-orbit that can be viewed
in 3-D with GoogleEarth: http://38north.org/2012/04/tongchang041012/
<http://38north.org/2012/04/tongchang041012/>.
Larry K8MU
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