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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 secured $22,800,000 from investors on 2018-12-07 to fund a constellation of specialized remote-sensing satellites.
Axelspace’s first AxelGlobe satellite is scheduled to launch 2018-12-27 from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome on a Soyuz-2 rocket through smallsat launch aggregator Glavkosmos.
Axelspace plans to expand beyond Japan in the future and is considering the United States as well as locations in Asia and Europe.
Tokyo-based Axelspace raised Series B funds from 31VENTURES – Global Brain – Growth I Joint Venture with participation from the Innovation Network Corp. of Japan, SBI Investment Co., Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, and the University of Tokyo’s Innovation Platform.
Sky Perfect JSAT invested in Earth-observation startup AxelSpace since 2015.