Japan successfully put a spy satellite into orbit on Monday and expects to complete its network of intelligence-gathering satellites with another launch next year. Japan's space agency, JAXA, said the launch from the remote southern island of Tanegashima went off without a hitch and the radar-equipped satellite is functioning properly. Read more
A IGS Radar-3 Spacecraft launched on a H-2A rocket from Tanegashima Space Center on the 12th December 2011 at 01:21 UTC. This was the 20th flight of the H-2A rocket.
The Japanese H-2A rocket with the Information Gathering Satellite successfully launched from the Tanegashima Space Centre at 01:21 GMT, 12th December, 2011.
H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 20 launch date for Unit 3 Information Gathering Satellite Radar
The launch date Aerospace Research and Development Organization Ltd. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, / H No. 3 Information Gathering Satellite radar-IIA Launch Vehicle from the Tanegashima Space Centre 20 (H-IIA · F20) has been rescheduled to 01:10 GMT (21:10 JST) 12th December 2011. Future weather conditions may also postpone the launch again.
A Japanese H-2A rocket is scheduled to launch an Information Gathering Satellite, (IGS 7A) from the Tanegashima Space Centre, Japan, at 01:00 GMT, 12th December, 2011. The two hour launch window extends from 01:00 to 03:00 GMT.