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Japan to launch intelligence-gathering satellite next month by Staff Writers Tokyo, Japan (XNA) Dec 18, 2019
Japan will launch an H2A rocket carrying a government optical intelligence-gathering satellite next month from a launch site in southwestern Japan, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said on Monday. Mitsubishi Heavy, which is in charge of the launch, said the H2A F41 rocket will lift off between 10 a.m. and noon on Jan. 27 from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan operates two types of reconnaissance satellites. The optical type uses high-performance cameras to take images during the day, while the radar satellites capture images in the evening and in poor weather conditions. In June last year, the H2A F39 rocket was used to launch a radar intelligence-gathering satellite at the same launch site. Source: Xinhua News Agency
Hi-Tech antenna deployed for India's new spysat New Delhi (Sputnik) Dec 17, 2019 Besides the main RISAT-2BR1 satellite, on 11 December, the ISRO's PSLV-C48 carried nine international satellites - six from the US and one each from Israel, Italy and Japan. The advance antenna is meant to increase the capacity of the satellite. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released a video of the successful deployment of the sophisticated technology of the RISAT-2BR1 spacecraft in orbit. It is the radar imaging earth observation satellite which was launched from Srihari ... read more
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