Japan has just launched new information satellites

Japan has launched a new satellite to collect information thanks to the H-2A missile at Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Friday September 23, 2011, the local news agency said.

This new satellite is launched using the H-2A rocket (Photo: factsanddetails)

Earlier, Japan launched three information satellites in the wake of a rocket launch of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and one of the latest satellites will replace the two. When the time has expired, Kydo said.

This fourth information-gathering satellite is worth 35.9 billion yen and the cost to launch it is 10.4 billion yen, according to the Japanese government.

The Japan Space Exploration Agency and Mitsubishi Industrial Heavy Industries were forced to postpone the launch of the satellite three times in four weeks due to the impact of a major storm and the discovery of a system failure. It was originally planned to use a rocket to launch a satellite into orbit on August 28, 2011