Japan launches new satellites to boost surveillance
- Published: 27 Jan 2013 at 16.44
- Online news: Asia
Japan on Sunday launched two satellites to strengthen its surveillance capabilities, including keeping a closer eye on North Korea which has vowed to stage another nuclear test.
This file photo shows a Japanese rocket lifting off from the Tanegashima Space Centre in the southern island of Tanegashima, on July 21, 2012. Japan on Sunday launched two satellites to strengthen its surveillance capabilities, including keeping a closer eye on North Korea which has vowed to stage another nuclear test.
One of them was a radar-equipped unit to complete a system of surveillance satellites that will allow Tokyo to monitor any place in the world at least once a day.
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