A Japanese H-2A rocket will launch the country's third Information Gathering Satellite optical reconnaissance spacecraft (IGS), from the Tanegashima Launch site, Japan, on September 10th, 2006.
The satellite will be able to resolve objects a metre or more in diameter. It's mission will probably be to keep an eye on neighbouring North Korea.
Japan's space agency, JAXA, has rescheduled a radar spy satellite, that was originally planned to be launched aboard the same rocket, to fly aboard its own H-2A rocket.
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