Japan Launches Second Reconnaissance Satellite

Japan has launched the second of two optical reconnaissance satellites on board an H-IIA booster from the Tanegashima Space Center, improving its surveillance capacity for watching North Korean missile programs. Development of a four-satellite recce program, with two optical and two radar spacecraft...

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