The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency: 1 model, 1 deployment across 1 region, 1 active incident. 3 sources back the record.
CategorySpace
Overview
Japan's national aerospace agency, headquartered in Chōfu, Tokyo, formed in 2003 through the merger of three predecessor organizations (ISAS, NASDA, NAL). JAXA develops launch vehicles (H3, Epsilon S), satellites, and robotic systems including the Int-Ball autonomous camera drone deployed aboard the ISS Kibō module. The agency operates the Space Strategy Fund (¥1 trillion) to support Japan's domestic space industry.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 1 deployment on file
- Active incidents
- 1 incident on file
Key facts
Data & sources
Web sources
3
3 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1GITAI1× joint1 total
Most recent
- GITAI x JAXA2025-01-01with GITAIoperating
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on the deployment map
View the global map1 verified deployment across 1 region, newest verified Jun 2017. Explore where Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's robots are operating, by place and type.
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Hiroshi Yamakawa President (Administrator)
Safety record
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Incidents affecting Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (1)
- JAXA servers compromised in unauthorized access incident2023-10-01 · Other
Includes incidents linked directly to this company, to its models, or to deployments of its models or under its operation. Retracted incidents are excluded from this view but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Operator customers (1)
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency1 deployment
Recent coverage
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in third-party press
Peers
56 peers across 1 segment. Every Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
space(56)
36 companies in this segment · low_concentration (HHI 1188.742650389188) · leader K2 Space at 2172%
- Airbusdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Astrobotic Technologydirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Astroscaledirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Boeingdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- China Manned Space Agencydirect competitor(inferred)strong
- China National Space Administrationdirect competitor(inferred)strong
Mentioned on (7)
Registry pages whose text names Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Companies (2)
Deployments (1)
People (2)
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating
Every company Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- GITAI x JAXA2025-01-01with GITAIoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1GITAI1× joint1 total
Timeline
Every recorded move in Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipGITAI x JAXA
2025-01-01GITAI (via its Japanese subsidiary) was awarded a JAXA contract in 2025 to conduct a concept study for a robotic arm system for a crewed pressurized lunar rover, applying GITAI's space-robotic-arm technology to Japan's lunar exploration program.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
First Disclosure of Images Taken by Int-Ball, JAXA ISS Drone Camera...
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 7, 2026
Int-Ball footage first release (full version)
- Record createdJun 6, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Incident recordedOct 1, 2023
JAXA servers compromised in unauthorized access incident
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 3, 2017
Int-Ball at International Space Station
Sources (3)
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-12
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-12
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.Peer companies
- Impulse Space6 models
- AstroForge3 models
- Astrobotic Technology3 models
- Blackswan Space3 models
- China National Space Administration3 models
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Watch Japan launch the first ever Mars-bound mission designed to come back
Japan's space agency JAXA will launch a probe to Mars' moon Phobos that will land and grab a sample to return to Earth in 2031.
NASA to Help Unlock Mysteries of Mars’ Moons in Upcoming Mission
NASA is playing an important role in JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission, to advance our understanding of Mars’ moons and build on…
JAXA Taps ArkEdge for Two Lunar Navigation Demos
Today’s Moon explorers won’t have the luxury of GPS-like tech for navigation. But JAXA is trying to change that for future lunar visitors. The post JAXA Taps ArkEdge for Two Lunar…
NASA Briefing to Highlight Contributions to Martian Moons Mission
Media are invited to join NASA for a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Oct. 15, to preview the agency’s contributions to JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)…
Last working engine of Hayabusa2 asteroid probe breaks down
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency aims to continue the mission by employing usable parts of two other failed ion engines on Hayabusa2.
NASA Shares SpaceX Crew-14 Assignments for Space Station Mission
Four crew members from three space agencies will launch to the International Space Station no earlier than spring 2027 for a long-duration science expedition as part of NASA’s…
NASA-JAXA XRISM Mission Sees Pulsar Gathering Companion’s ‘Wind’
Using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory, astronomers have directly observed a giant star’s outflow, called a stellar wind, being…
Japan is launching a mission to bring back the first samples from a Martian moon
Skye Jacobs, writing for TechSpot, reports that JAXA will launch its Martian Moons eXploration mission, MMX, from Tanegashima Space Center on October 20. The spacecraft will…
ispace Receives Grant for Japan’s Space Strategy Fund Project “High-Precision Landing Technology in the Lunar Poles Region”
TOKYO—August 7, 2026—ispace, inc. (ispace) (TOKYO: 9348), a global lunar exploration company, today announced that it has been awarded a grant for its “High-Precision Landing…
JAXA lands experimental reusable rocket in first flight test
Japan's space agency has flown and landed a prototype vehicle in an early step toward reusable launch vehicles Continue reading JAXA lands experimental reusable rocket in first…
Report on Unauthorized Access at JAXA
JAXA reports on unauthorized access to its internal servers, confirming compromised information related to external organizations and personal data.
Japan's space agency hit by repeated cyberattacks since last year
The Japan Times reports JAXA experienced multiple cyberattacks since 2023, with potential leaks of employee data and information on external partners including NASA and Toyota.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/jaxa.md
- RSS feed: /companies/jaxa/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/cb870451-dba4-4457-9548-ac73fc43f747
- Revision history: /companies/jaxa/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Impulse Space6 models
- AstroForge3 models
- Astrobotic Technology3 models
- Blackswan Space3 models
- China National Space Administration3 models
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3 models
Video
JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft deployed two little "rovers" called MINERVA-II1A and MINERVA-II1B to land on the surface of asteroid Ryugu on Sept. 21, 2018. -- Full Story: https://www.space.com/41898-hayabusa2-deploys-hopp
JAXA discloses the first images and video taken by the JEM Internal Ball Camera (Int-Ball) aboard the ISS.
Japan's 'Moon Sniper' craft, also known as the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), successfully executed a "soft landing" on the lunar surface on Friday
JAXA discloses Int-Ball Letter Vol. 5 with the latest video of the Kibo internal drone on the ISS.
JAXA has disclosed Int-Ball Letter Vol. 2 with the latest video of the Kibo internal drone on the ISS.
While other nations focus on building bigger rockets, Japan has chosen a different path to becoming a space superpower: mastering insane precision. Their space
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Sora Q is a bipedal robot developed by JAXA, designed for space exploration. It is built to navigate in microgravity environments and assist astronauts in vario
📹Reporters: Weichung Lu/Klein Wang The Japanese space agency has teamed up with a toymaker to develop its latest mini lunar exploration robot. The developers
Japan's Space Program Is Genius Here's Why Japan’s space program, spearheaded by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is a testament to the nation’
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Heat Index
Serious52/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency draws attention at the 80th percentile but verifies reality at the 7th percentile among space robots. Hype Gap +72.4, 4th widest among space robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Safety profile within acceptable range for category. Meaningful press and media coverage across the period. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 19, 2026