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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 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.
Axelspace successfully launched four satellites in March 2021 to support the AxelGlobe platform.
AxelGlobe is an Earth observation platform that Axelspace Corporation has been constructing since 2015.
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 successfully launched four GRUS satellites on 2021-03-22.
With funds from the Series C round, Axelspace will manufacture, launch, and begin operating five additional satellites in 2023.
Axelspace plans for AxelGlobe to evolve into a constellation of 10 satellites in total after launching five additional GRUS satellites 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 Holdings Corporation completed a Series C funding round raising approximately JPY 2.58 billion (about $23,800,000).
Axelspace raised $22,800,000 in a Series B funding round.
Mitsui Fudosan participated as a lead investor in Axelspace’s Series B financing completed in 2018.
Axelspace plans to manufacture and launch five additional optical small satellites named GRUS in 2023.
Axelspace Corporation has been developing a next-generation Earth observation platform named AxelGlobe designed to obtain images of the entire planet with high frequency.
Mitsui Fudosan supported Axelspace’s office relocation and expansion in 2015.
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 Corporation partnered with Gtt NetCorp, Inc. to provide Earth observation data from the AxelGlobe constellation to Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, and the Caribbean territory.
GRUS-1B, GRUS-1C, GRUS-1D, and GRUS-1E are 100-kilogram smallsats built for optical Earth observation that constitute Axelspace’s AxelGlobe platform.