North Korea launched a small military spy satellite Tuesday on the country's first successful orbital launch since 2016. This, alone, would be newsworthy, but this launch comes with a twist.

The goal is to improve monitoring of North Korea, as well as reduce South Korea's dependence on US satellite imagery. South Korea launched its first reconnaissance satellite in December 2023.

North Korea has said it successfully launched a military spy satellite on its third attempt in six months.. State media said the rocket took off at 10.42pm (13:42 GMT) on Tuesday night from the ...

The North's space agency said the "Malligyong-1" satellite was placed in its orbit on Tuesday night, about 12 minutes after it was launched aboard the new "Chollima-1" carrier rocket.

Where South Korea is gleaming with city lights, North Korea has hardly any lights at all. VIDEO: NASA satellite's view of the Earth at night ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched South Korea's 425Sat-3 satellite on Monday (April 21) along with two other spacecraft on the Bandwagon-3 rideshare mission. 425Sat-3 is a synthetic aperture radar ...