Ultra-affordable, privately funded satellites designed to monitor the entire surface of the world — once per day.
Notable Achievements
- Raised over USD$70 million to date. Investors include Global Brain, Mitsui Fudosan and Kyocera.
- Successfully developed, launched and operated the world's first commercial microsatellte.
- Constructing Japan's sole Earth observation satellite constellation.
Currently Operating in Twelve Regions
Press Mentions

June 20, 2018
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May 18, 2021
Axelspace raises $24 million in Series C round - SpaceNews
Axelspace, the Japanese firm planning to offer daily global optical imagery, raised 2.58 billion Japanese yen ($23.8 million) in a Series C investment round announced May 14 in Tokyo, May 13 in the...

April 2, 2021
Japan BrandVoice: These Japanese Startups Are Powering Space Development
Japanese startups are helping power global space industry growth by supplying two essential tools for space development: robots and satellites.

April 2, 2021
Axelspace Expands Partnership with KSAT - Via Satellite -
Tokyo-based Axelspace has expanded its agreement with KSAT in the area of satellite imagery applications. The two companies are expanding an existing partnership on global ground network support to...

March 13, 2019
Russia to launch 3 Japanese satellites from Baikonur spaceport in 2020
The first micro-satellite GRUS (GRUS-1A) is due to be launched on December 27, 2018

January 18, 2019
Japan Launches Meteor-Spawning Minisatellite, 6 Other Spacecraft to Orbit
Japan launched seven spacecraft to Earth orbit today (Jan. 17), including a little satellite designed to create dazzling artificial meteor showers.The payloads rode to space aboard an Epsilon...
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