On March 17, 2017 at 01:20 UTC the Japanese H-2A rocket-carrier was launched from Tanegashima Cosmodrome situated at the island located 115 km south of Kyushu. Kyushu is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. The rocket orbited the “IGS Radar-5” radar reconnaissance satellite. Japanese government officials have not disclosed the exact capabilities of the radar spy satellite, but the radar instrument aboard the surveillance orbiter can likely resolve objects on the ground as small as a meter in size. The so-called Information Gathering Satellite, named IGS Radar 5, is Japan’s sixth radar reconnaissance satellite. Japan also flies spy satellites with electro-optical cameras, which offer sharper imagery but only in daytime and when skies are clear.

On March 16, 2017 at 06:00 UTC the " Falcon-9” rocket-carrier was launched from LP-39A of the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch was performed by the "SpaceX” private company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited the “EchoStar-23” commercial television broadcast satellite.

On March 7, 2017 at 01:49 UTC (on March 6, 2017 at 22:49 local time) the “Vega” rocket-carrier was launched from Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana. The rocket orbited the “Sentinel 2B” earth environmental observation satellite to check on the health of crops and forests from space.

On March 06, 2017 at 10:45 UTC the American Lemur-2 “Trutna” and Lemur-2 “‘TrutnaHD” mini-satellites and at 18:20 UTC the American TechEdSat-5 (TES-5, Technical and Educational Satellite) satellite were launched from the International Space Station.