This will be pretty big news in Northeast Asia (in the next few hours).This will be the first attempt by Japan to put spy satellites in orbit. They are moving ahead quickly on this because of the threat from misbehaving North Korea.The time will be: 8:27 p.m. Thursday Eastern Time. The launch site for the H-2 rocket is Tanegashima Island in southern Japan. There is heavy security there. (Open source information). No Japanese websites, (that I have noticed), are planning to webcast, although they have webcast other satellite launches in the past.News stories should break on the Web soon after,...