An H-IIA 202 launched IGS Optical-5, Japan's first third-generation optical reconnaissance satellite, from Tanegashima Space Center for the Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center, providing sub-50cm resolution imagery for defense and disaster monitoring.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 17th
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 26 March 2015, 01:21 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2015-015
- Launches in 2015
- 16th of 87
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