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Saturday, 18 March 2017 Tokyo: Japan launched a new spy satellite, the country’s space agency said, as the region grows increasingly uneasy over North Korea’s quickening missile programme. The Radar 5 unit was carried into space yesterday on Japan’s mainstay H-2A rocket from a launch site in the country’s southwest. …

Tuesday, 28 February 2017 WASHINGTON – A National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) payload has been scheduled for liftoff at 9:50 a.m. local time on Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in the US state of California. The satellite will be the fifth NRO payload launched by a Atlas V. “We are postured …