After decades of satellite surveillance by foreign governments and analysts, North Korea has sent its first spy satellite on a global orbit with a message to the world: we can watch you too.
After decades of satellite surveillance by foreign governments and analysts, North Korea has sent its first spy satellite on a global orbit with a message to the world: we can watch you too.
ICBM are both an easier and harder task than putting satellites into orbit.
Easier in that the math and fuel requirements are a lot easier if you don’t need a stable orbit so much as a trajectory.
Harder in that your payload is likely considerably heavier if you want to make the ICBM worth the cost.
To use video game terminology: the two are different branches of the same tech tree with a potential join for an endgame super weapon (rods from god)
It’s still a lot of the same math. A successful launch like this is a lot learned for all applications.