H-IIA launched IGS Radar-5, Japan's sixth Information Gathering Satellite, carrying synthetic aperture radar for reconnaissance imaging day or night and in any weather, including monitoring North Korea.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 20th
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 17 March 2017, 01:20 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2017-015
- Launches in 2017
- 16th of 90
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