Pakistan, April 9 -- South Korea successfully launched its second indigenous spy satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in the U.S. state of Florida on Monday (Seoul time), according to the defense ministry.
The Falcon 9 lifted off at 8:17 a.m. (7:17 p.m. Seoul time) from the John F. Kennedy Space Center and sent the reconnaissance satellite into orbit approximately 45 minutes after the launch, the ministry said.
It succeeded in communicating with an overseas ground station at 10:57 a.m., it noted. It is the second military satellite launched under South Korea's plan to acquire five spy satellites by 2025 to better monitor North Korea.
The satellite was equipped with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors that ca...