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Japan Successfully Launches New Spy Satellite

© AFP 2023 / JIJI PRESSJapan's H-2A rocket, carrying a spy satellite, launches from the launch pad of Tanegashima Space Center at Tanegashima island in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan's southern island of Kyushu on February 1, 2015
Japan's H-2A rocket, carrying a spy satellite, launches from the launch pad of Tanegashima Space Center at Tanegashima island in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan's southern island of Kyushu on February 1, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Japan reportedly completed the launch of a new spy satellite from the Tanegashima Space Center in the Kagoshima Prefecture on Sunday morning.

MOSCOW, February 1 (Sputnik) – Japan successfully completed the launch of a radar reconnaissance satellite on Sunday morning, the Kyodo news agency reports.

The launch was performed from the Tanegashima Space Center in the Kagoshima Prefecture in the south of Japan at 10:21 local time (01:30 GMT). The satellite was taken into orbit by the H-2A (H-IIA) carrier rocket.

This is the fifth spy satellite that Japan has launched into the Earth's orbit. It will allow to capture objects on the surface of the Earth at high resolution during nighttime and through clouds. The other four Japanese satellites that are orbiting the Earth include two optical imaging spacecraft and two radar imagers.

Japan plans to launch another reconnaissance satellite in March, as part of the Information Gathering Satellite (IGS) series. The IGS program was initiated after North Korea attempted to launch a satellite in August 1998. The rocket carrying the satellite overflew Japan and fell into the Pacific Ocean.

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