SEOUL - South Korea has launched its second military spy satellite into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the defense ministry said Monday.
The Falcon 9 rocket carrying 11 satellites, including South Korea's indigenous military reconnaissance satellite, lifted off at 8:16 am local time on Monday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida the United States, a live footage from SpaceX showed.

Seoul's second spy satellite is equipped with a synthetic aperture radar capable of producing images regardless of weather conditions due to how it processes data

The reconnaissance satellite was put into orbit about 45 minutes after the launch, the South Korean defense ministry noted.
South Korea planned to launch five military spy satellites by 2025, including the second one equipped with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors.
The first one fitted with electro-optical and infrared sensors was launched in December last year. 

The Falcon 9 rocket was launched at 2317 GMT on Sunday and the satellite successfully separated from the launch vehicle 45 minutes later and entered its targeted orbit, the ministry said in a statement. It made successful communications with a ground station about two hours and 40 minutes after the launch, the ministry added.
Seoul's second spy satellite is equipped with a synthetic aperture radar capable of producing images regardless of weather conditions due to how it processes data. 
Seoul's first spy satellite was put into orbit from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base in December.
With Reuters inputs