L-band SAR Satellite May Help JAXA’s New Military Job

Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA
A version of this article appears in the April 28 edition of Aviation Week & Space Technology. Spacecraft developed by the civilian Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will gain an expanded defense role under revisions in Japan’s basic space law enacted last year. The ALOS-2 Earth-observation...

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