Deployment
Int-Ball at North America
JAXA JEM Internal Ball Camera: a free-flying, self-propelled spherical camera drone inside the ISS Japanese Experiment Module, controlled by JAXA ground operators to record crew operations (offloading photo/video chores from astronauts). Autonomous free-flight and station-keeping; tasking is ground-directed. Int-Ball 1 launched 2017-06-03; Int-Ball2 (2023-06-06) adds a stereo camera, IMU and autonomous docking.
Int-Ball by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency · Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified
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North American operational deployment. Int-Ball operations.
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- Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified
- Last updated
- 2026-06-08
- Model
- Int-Ball
- Company
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Location
- North America
- Status
- operational
- ID
c20c6c80-540e-4e0b-986f-a132a71f26ae
Sources (1)
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-08
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-08
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: research
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: space
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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Methodology surface for Int-Ball at North America.Common questions
- What is the Int-Ball deployment at North America?
- Int-Ball, built by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is recorded as a deployment at North America on the DEPLOY registry. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency operates the deployment directly.
- Who operates Int-Ball at North America?
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the manufacturer of Int-Ball, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
- Have there been incidents at the Int-Ball deployment at North America?
- No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.
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