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H-IIA 202 | IGS Radar 5

IGS Radar 5

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 17 Mar 2017, 01:20 am UTC

Rocket: H-IIA (H-II)

Provider: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Mission

Type: Government/Top Secret

Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Pad: Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

Mission Description

IGS Radar is a family of Japanese radar reconnaissance satellites that serve both Japan's national defense and civil natural disaster monitoring. IGS Radar 5 is the fifth generation of satellites. Equipped with synthetic aperture radar, it is able to image targets even in darkness and bad weather.