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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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With funds from the Series C round, Axelspace will manufacture, launch, and begin operating five additional satellites in 2023.
Mitsui Fudosan participated as a lead investor in Axelspace’s Series B financing completed in 2018.
The Space Frontier Fund managed by Sparx Innovation for Future Co. provided funding to Axelspace’s Series C round alongside venture capital firms and investment funds managed by Global Brain Corp., Japan Post Investment Corp., Kyocera Corp., Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co. Ltd., Mitsui Fudosan Co. Ltd., and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment Co. Ltd.
Axelspace successfully launched four GRUS satellites on 2021-03-22.
Axelspace Corporation partnered with Gtt NetCorp, Inc. to provide Earth observation data from the AxelGlobe constellation to Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, and the Caribbean territory.
Axelspace planned to officially start the AxelGlobe service with five satellites by June 2021.
GRUS-1B, GRUS-1C, GRUS-1D, and GRUS-1E are 100-kilogram smallsats built for optical Earth observation that constitute Axelspace’s AxelGlobe platform.
ATLAS Space Operations will support Astroscale, LinaSpace, and Axelspace in their space-based missions using the Freedom Platform.
Axelspace launched four satellites from Baikonur and ATLAS will support their mission from its new ground station in New Zealand.
The first batch of secondary payloads included four GRUS remote sensing satellites for Tokyo-based Axelspace Corporation, deployed between 4:35 a.m. and 4:37 a.m. EDT after two Fregat restarts.
Axelspace will launch four satellites—GRUS-1B, GRUS-1C, GRUS-1D, and GRUS-1E—on 2021-03-20 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
ShadowBreak Intl will provide its data infrastructure and technology solutions to deliver imagery to customers in a private and secure environment for the joint offerings with Axelspace Corporation.
ShadowBreak Intl and Axelspace Corporation will develop and launch additional satellite-imagery products specifically designed to meet the needs of the Defense and Intelligence industry.
Axelspace Corporation and ShadowBreak Intl will offer turnkey solutions for the design, launch, and operation of microsatellites and ground stations directly to select customers.
Axelspace’s GRUS satellites are equipped with cameras that gather imagery at 2.5-meter resolution in red, blue, green, near-infrared, and red-edge wavelengths.
Axelspace began commercial operations in 2019 using imagery from its first 100-kilogram satellite launched in 2018.
On 2020-11-11, Axelspace planned to send four satellites into sun-synchronous orbit in March on a Soyuz-2 rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
Axelspace, founded in Tokyo in 2008, plans to operate dozens of satellites in low Earth orbit to capture daily global imagery at a resolution of 2.5 m per pixel.
Axelspace plans for its next two AxelGlobe satellites to launch in late 2019 or early 2020.
Axelspace has raised roughly $40,000,000 in funding to date.