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RE: Optical Information Gathering Satellite

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Japan on Saturday morning launched an intelligence-gathering satellite to spy on North Korea's military facilities. The optical satellite carries devices that can distinguish objects on the ground with a resolution of 60 cm and will supply the highest-definition photographs of all Japanese reconnaissance satellites, which have a resolution of up to 1 m.
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Japan's latest intelligence-gathering satellite was successfully put into orbit Saturday, replacing an earlier model, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency said.
The optical satellite was launched on an H-2A rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture by JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.

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A new spy satellite designed to monitor North Korean military activities was successfully placed in orbit on Saturday.
Approximately 20 minutes after the H-IIA launch vehicle F16 blasted off from Tanegashima Space Centre in Kagoshima Prefecture at 10:21 a.m., the satellite separated from the rocket and entered its target orbit. It was the 10th consecutive successful H-IIA launch since flight F7 in 2005.

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Japan launched its fifth spy satellite into orbit Saturday in a bid to boost its ability to independently gather intelligence, the government said.
The domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying the $565 million satellite lifted off from a space centre on the southern island of Tanegashima, said Hisashi Michigami, an official at the Cabinet

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H-2A F16/IGS Optical 4

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The Japanese H-2A rocket has successfully launched the optical Information Gathering Satellite, from the Tanegashima Space Centre, Japan, at 01:19 GMT on the 28th November, 2009.

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A Japanese H-2A rocket is scheduled to launch an Information Gathering Satellite, from the Tanegashima Space Centre, Japan, between 01:05-03:32 GMT, on the 28th November, 2009.