Japan's military wants its own spysat, but may buy U.S. images

Japan's military and at least one of the three political parties in Japan's coalition government want to develop a domestic reconnaissance satellite to reduce reliance on U.S. imagery, but until the political and technical hurdles to a Japanese spysat are overcome the military may be willing to buy...

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