(Before entering orbit) Military launches Reconnaissance Satellite 3...The first step in cluster management

A military reconnaissance satellite No. 3 has been launched into space to strengthen the detection network against North Korea.

It was found that military reconnaissance satellite No. 3 was successfully launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at around 8:34 p.m. today (21st) in our time.

The launched reconnaissance satellite will enter orbit through three engine injections in stages for 51 minutes and 39 seconds, and the satellite will be deployed, and ground communication is expected to take place about three hours later.

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.