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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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Axelspace signed a contract to supply optical imagery data for Japan’s Ministry of Defense satellite constellation program as part of a private-sector consortium.
Axelspace’s contract with the Ministry of Defense represents an expansion of the company’s activities into the defense domain.
Axelspace will act as the sole optical imagery provider under an agreement with Tri-Sat Constellation Co., Ltd. and Mitsui Bussan Aerospace Co., Ltd.
Axelspace previously focused on Earth observation services for commercial and civil applications using a microsatellite fleet.
Axelspace and Synspective are subcontracted to Tri-Sat Constellation to provide satellite imagery and related operational tasks through 2031.
Axelspace will serve as the sole provider of optical imagery among the partner companies for Japan’s planned satellite constellation.
The Japan Ministry of Defense announced Axelspace, Synspective, SKY Perfect JSAT, Mitsui, and Mitsubishi Electric, along with Mitsui Bussan Aerospace and iQPS, last December as contract awardees to build Japan’s satellite constellation.
Both Axelspace’s and Synspective’s contracts run from February 19, 2026 to March 31, 2031.
Axelspace’s contract for providing optical imagery to Japan’s planned satellite constellation is worth 48 billion yen ($310 million).
Axelspace and Synspective finalized agreements with SKY Perfect JSAT, Mitsui, and Mitsubishi Electric to provide optical and synthetic aperture radar imagery respectively to the Japan Ministry of Defense’s planned satellite constellation.
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Investors in Amateras Space’s angel round included Takafumi Horie, Hideto Fujino of Rheos Capital Works, Kazunori Asada, Mamoru Taniya of SDG Impact Japan, Hitoshi Uehara of Mynavi, Tomoya Nakamura of Axelspace Holdings, Kunihiro Ogiwara of Zero to One, and Yasumasa Manabe of HOXIN.
Investors in Amateras Space's angel round include entrepreneur Takafumi Horie; Eikoh Fujino, chairman and president of Rheos Capital Works; physician and media-design PhD Kazunori Asada; Mamoru Taniya, chairman of SDG Impact Japan; Hitoshi Uehara, founder of Mynet; Tomoya Nakamura, president of Axelspace Holdings; Kunikiyo Ogiwara, president of Zero to One; and Yasumasa Manabe, president of HOXIN.
Axelspace joined the Electronic National Land Basic Map project in fiscal year 2023 and has provided imagery and preprocessing support for analysis.
Axelspace supplies satellite imagery from its AxelGlobe Earth observation platform to the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan for updating and improving the accuracy of national foundational map data.
Axelspace intends to continue participating in the national foundational information project through next-generation satellites and advances in data provision technology.
Axelspace's imagery is used in AI-based analysis to extract changes in roads and buildings and to reflect those changes in the Electronic National Land Basic Map.
On January 21, Axelspace signed a contract to continue providing satellite imagery data to the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan's Electronic National Land Basic Map project.
アクセルスペース has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Ethiopia's Jethi Software Development PLC to utilize Earth observation data from satellites to address local social issues.