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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 plans to build a next-generation satellite constellation in which all satellites are equipped with a highly functional Ka-band communication subsystem to support real-time remote sensing data and Non-Terrestrial Network infrastructure for the B0.005 kg/0.006 kg era.
Axelspace jointly developed the Ka-band radio with Tokyo Institute of Technology.
The Ka-band radio developed by Axelspace operates with less than half the power consumption of conventional radios.
NorthStar is assessing SSA data from Axelspace while working with clients as the company builds out services ahead of launching its first satellites.
Starting in January 2023, NorthStar will leverage Axelspace’s operational AxelGlobe constellation of five Earth observation LEO satellites to provide complementary data for space situational awareness.
SkyFi and Axelspace established a strategic partnership framework to provide images from Axelspace’s GRUS smallsats to SkyFi’s constellation.
Axelspace’s GRUS smallsats weigh 100 kg each and operate in sun-synchronous orbit at approximately 585 km altitude.
Axelspace and JX Press delivered satellite images of the large-scale landslide in Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture, caused by heavy rain on 2021-07-03.
Axelspace successfully launched four satellites in March 2021 to support the AxelGlobe platform.
Axelspace and JX Press released preliminary satellite images captured on 2021-04-09 (before the disaster) and 2021-07-12 (after the disaster) of the Atami landslide site.
During the demonstration period, Axelspace and JX Press will take AxelGlobe images at irregular intervals and provide them free of charge to FASTALERT contract customers.
AxelGlobe is an Earth observation platform that Axelspace Corporation has been constructing since 2015.
Axelspace plans for AxelGlobe to evolve into a constellation of 10 satellites in total after launching five additional GRUS satellites in 2023.
Axelspace plans to manufacture and launch five additional optical small satellites named GRUS in 2023.
Axelspace raised 2.58 billion Japanese yen ($23,800,000) in a Series C investment round on 2021-05-14 in Tokyo and 2021-05-13 in the United States.
Axelspace’s GRUS satellites are designed to gather panchromatic imagery with 2.5-meter resolution and red, blue and green, near-infrared and red-edge imagery with 5-meter resolution.
Axelspace Corporation has been developing a next-generation Earth observation platform named AxelGlobe designed to obtain images of the entire planet with high frequency.
Axelspace Holdings Corporation completed a Series C funding round raising approximately JPY 2.58 billion (about $23,800,000).
Mitsui Fudosan supported Axelspace’s office relocation and expansion in 2015.
Axelspace raised $22,800,000 in a Series B funding round.