LaunchesIGS Radar 5
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IGS Radar 5
H-IIA · Government/Top Secret
2017Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center
Mission
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.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- MHI
- Rocket
- H-IIA
- Orbit
- SSO
- Pad
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2