14.02.2013, 23:59
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February 14, 2013 12:03 PM
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It says design features, including a flame trench covering that protects large rockets from the hot exhaust gases they emit on takeoff, is similar to one at a launch complex in Semnan, Iran, and hasn't been used by the North before.
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The North's most recent long-range launches — a failed attempt to put a satellite into space atop an Unha-2 rocket in April, then a successful effort in December — were conducted at a newer site, Sohae, on the west coast.
38 North estimates that construction at Tonghae's new launch pad could be completed by 2016. It says tanks installed last fall in support buildings that would be used to store fuel propellant prior to a launch would be big enough for rockets three or four times larger than the Unha.
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