Military launches reconnaissance satellite 3...the entry of a stationary orbit

A military reconnaissance satellite No. 3 was launched into space tonight to strengthen its detection network against North Korea, entering normal orbit.

The Ministry of National Defense announced that military reconnaissance satellite No. 3 was launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at around 8:34 p.m. today (21st) in our time and entered normal orbit in 51 minutes.

The launched reconnaissance satellite was found to have entered orbit through three engine injections in stages and then separated from the projectile.

If this synthetic opening radar and SAR satellite plan, developed with our military's own technology, is successful, it will be the second time following April, and the first cluster operation will take place with the Electromagnetic and Infrared Sensor Satellite No. 1 launched last year.

Seok Jong-gun, head of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration, said, "With the first reconnaissance satellite cluster operation, we can receive more images and use sensors more suitable for detection characteristics to identify signs of North Korea's provocations in three dimensions."The 425 project, a reconnaissance satellite plan for

, aims to strengthen detection capabilities, the first step in the 'triaxial system' that leads to detection, interception, and retaliation in the event of a missile threat from North Korea.