H-IIA launched the IGS Optical-7 reconnaissance satellite for Japan's Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center, expanding the country's independent optical spy satellite constellation used for surveillance and disaster monitoring, from Tanegashima Space Center.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 27th
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 9 February 2020, 01:34 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2020-009
- Launches in 2020
- 9th of 114
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