Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Japan Plans September Launch for New Spy Satellite

An AP newswire article by Eric Talmadge, via Space.com, reports that:

Japan will launch an intelligence-gathering satellite in early September, the country's space agency announced Wednesday.

The satellite, part of a program started in 2003 in concern over secretive North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, will be launched atop the domestically developed H2-A rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan, the space agency JAXA said in a statement.

It would be the third intelligence-gathering satellite Japan has launched. The first two were put into orbit in March 2003. JAXA plans to launch a fourth next winter.

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