Abstract The Hwasong-15 (H-15), an intercontinental ballistic missile developed by North Korea, was launched at approximately 18:17 UT on 28 November 2017. It was reported that the H-15 missile reached an altitude of approximately 4500 km and traveled a distance of nearly 960 km from its launch site. We use GPS/GLONASS measurements obtained from the Korean GNSS network (KGN) to observe ionospheric total electron content (TEC) disturbances to the H-15 missile launch. TEC depletion by the H-15 missile is smaller than that by the 2016 Kwangmyongsong-4 (K-4) rocket. Two different background conditions (electron densities) result in a large difference of TEC depletions between the 2017 H-15 and the 2016 K-4. The fast-traveling ionospheric disturbances towards the southwest over South Korea were also observed ∼5–10 min after the missile launch.


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    Title :

    Observation of the fast-traveling ionospheric disturbances induced by the 2017 North Korean missile


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    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 63 , 8 ; 2598-2608


    Publication date :

    2018-12-26


    Size :

    11 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English