Japan plans to launch a spy satellite

The Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) have said that they will launch H-IIA missiles carrying a spy satellite early next year, according to Kyodo news agency on 27th. / 11. As planned, the H-IIA missile will leave the launch pad on January 27, 2013.

A wave of Japanese reconnaissance satellites at Tanegashima Space Center

If the launch is successful, Japan will have two reconnaissance satellites flying in orbit and the new satellite will be able to collect images with clear resolution for objects with a size of 1 meter or more.

It can also perform dark night reconnaissance missions and regardless of weather conditions.

It is known that Japan is based on two types of H-IIA and M-5 missiles to bring satellites and spacecraft into space.

Before the mission scheduled for January 27, since 2001, the H-IIA missile, developed by JAXA, has been launched 21 times into space. Since 2007, H-IIA has been transferred to MHI for operation.

The latest launch of H-IIA is on May 18, when missiles leave the launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center to bring four satellites into orbit at the same time.

Among them is a satellite of Korea, helping Japan for the first time to enter the satellite launch market with Russia and Europe.