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Axelspace Corporation, founded in 2008 and based in Tokyo, is a space venture company specializing in microsatellite technology. They provide satellite-based earth imagery and data collection using their own built micro-satellites for red-edge imagery with their AxelGlobe service. Axelspace also offers "AxelLiner", a one-stop service to enable customers to realize their own microsatellite missions. They serve customers like Weather News, Inc. and JAXA.
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The expanded Kongsberg Satellite Services and Axelspace partnership is intended to enhance satellite observation frequency, strengthen operational capabilities, and enable faster continuous monitoring of Earth’s surface.
Axelspace Corporation plans to launch GRUS-3 no earlier than July 2026.
Axelspace says GRUS-3 will support applications in environment and security, precision agriculture, forest monitoring, and mapping.
Axelspace currently operates five optical Earth-observation microsatellites in the GRUS-1 constellation as part of its AxelGlobe Earth-observation data service.
The Nikon telescope is paired with Axelspace’s image sensor unit to produce high-resolution imagery within the constraints of a microsatellite platform.
Axelspace currently operates five GRUS-1 satellites as part of its AxelGlobe data service.
Axelspace Corporation built the seven GRUS-3 microsatellites in Tokyo.
Axelspace’s collaboration with Nikon dates back to the launch of Axelspace’s first GRUS-1 satellite in December 2018.
The addition of seven GRUS-3 satellites will increase the frequency and geographic coverage of Axelspace’s commercially available Earth observation data.
Axelspace uses satellite attitude control technology to enable tasking, or on-demand imaging of designated areas.
The GRUS-3 launch will expand Axelspace’s Japanese commercial satellite constellation to more than 10 spacecraft.
The Nikon telescope and Axelspace’s image sensor unit are intended to improve cost efficiency for future mass production.
JAXA’s Space Strategy Fund selected a consortium led by Axelspace to develop technology for next-generation Earth observation satellites.
Akihiro Kuze will lead the Space Strategy Fund project for Axelspace.
Under the contract with Tri-Sat Constellation Co., Ltd., Axelspace will participate as the sole optical imagery provider.
The Ministry of Defense’s satellite constellation project was awarded to a consortium comprising Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Synspective Inc., Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc., Mitsui Bussan Aerospace Co., Ltd., and Axelspace Corporation.
A contract for the acquisition of optical imagery data has been signed between Axelspace Corporation and Tri-Sat Constellation Co., Ltd.
Axelspace will contribute satellite imagery acquisition to the Ministry of Defense satellite constellation project as the sole provider of optical imagery among the partner companies.
Axelspace’s selection as the sole optical imagery provider positions Axelspace at the centre of the constellation’s visible-spectrum data stream.
The constellation project was awarded to a consortium that includes Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Synspective, the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Mitsui Bussan Aerospace, and Axelspace.