Military, Reconnaissance Satellite 3, back on track...Ground communication is also successful.

Military reconnaissance satellite No. 3, which was launched to strengthen the detection network against North Korea, has successfully communicated on the ground after 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 after entering normal orbit, it succeeded in communicating on the ground in about three hours.

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

With the successful communication of this synthetic opening radar and SAR satellite developed with our military's own technology, our military has secured the ability to operate clusters along with the two satellites launched earlier.

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.