Japanese Spy Satellite Launches to Watch North Korea

The Information Gathering Satellite (IGS) Radar 5 lifted off atop a Japanese H-IIA rocket from Tanegashima Space Center Thursday night at 9:20 p.m. EDT (0120 GMT, and 10:20 a.m. local Japan time on March 17).

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