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Axelspace has raised a total of 14,300,000,000 JPY since its founding.
Axelspace currently operates five microsatellites that provide medium-resolution imagery through its AxelGlobe service.
Axelspace raised 6,240,000,000 JPY (about $43,900,000) in a Series D funding round on 2023-12-21.
Axelspace previously raised 2,580,000,000 JPY in a Series C round in 2021.
Axelspace Holdings Corporation completed a Series D funding round raising approximately JPY 6.24 billion (equivalent to $44,000,000).
Axelspace’s five-satellite constellation provides full-scale services to public and private sector customers and supports optical data relay operations.
Axelspace has developed and operated a total of nine smallsats over its 15-year history, including a technology demonstration satellite for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
Axelspace set the Green Spacecraft Standard 1.0 at a higher level than guidelines provided by national governments and international organizations.
Axelspace Corporation established the Green Spacecraft Standard 1.0 as a guideline to balance space business and sustainability.
The Ka-band radio developed by Axelspace and Tokyo Institute of Technology exhibits high radiation tolerance suitable for low-Earth-orbit operation.
Axelspace Corporation has designed, developed, manufactured, launched, and operated nine microsatellites.
Axelspace Corporation and researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology developed a Ka-band radio for microsatellites that operates with less than half the power consumption of conventional radios.
Axelspace Corporation’s main businesses are AxelGlobe, an Earth observation platform utilizing microsatellite constellations, and AxelLiner, a one-stop service for microsatellites.
Axelspace Corporation was established in 2008.
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.
Axelspace’s GRUS smallsats weigh 100 kg each and operate in sun-synchronous orbit at approximately 585 km altitude.