🇯🇵Space & Satellite in Japan

4 space & satellite providers in Japan, publishing 10 APIs.

4 providers 10 published APIs 10 indexed documents
Thin cohort — 4 providers, below the 5-provider floor. This page publishes its roster and deliberately generates no statistics about it. A distribution over 4 providers is not a small characterisation of space & satellite in Japan — it is a wrong one. Read the number as a statement about what the catalog has profiled, not about the market: Japan holds 164 providers overall and Space & Satellite holds 408. If a company belongs here and is missing, add it.

Space & Satellite in Japan — 4 providers on the APIs.io network sit in both cohorts, and between them they publish 10 indexed APIs.

This cell is below the 5-provider floor, so it carries no generated statistics. A distribution over 4 providers is not a small characterisation of space & satellite in Japan, it is a wrong one. What follows is the roster and nothing more. The gap is a statement about catalog coverage rather than about the market: Japan holds 164 providers in total and Space & Satellite holds 408, so the intersection being this small is worth reading as a queue of organisations not yet profiled.

Country membership reads a tag, a stated headquarters or a stated nationality. A provider lands in Japan when one of its own top-level tags names the country, when its own description states a headquarters that names the country or one of its cities, or when it describes itself by nationality (“a French company”; roadmap#542, #719). Region words (“Latin American”), language uses (“French-speaking”) and a city named outside a headquarters statement are not counted, so this cell is a floor, not a census.

Providers (4)

Provider Description APIs Rating
Infostellar Infostellar is a Tokyo-based space infrastructure company that operates StellarStation, a cloud ground-station-as-a-service (GSaaS) platform. It aggregates partner and operator ... 1 thin
JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) provides public APIs and data services for satellite Earth observation data, including GCOM/ALOS satellite imagery, global precipitatio... 8 emerging
SkyDrive SkyDrive Inc. is a Japanese advanced air mobility manufacturer, founded in July 2018 by members of the CARTIVATOR volunteer project, that develops, manufactures, sells and opera... 0 minimal
Arkedgespace ArkEdge Space is a Japanese satellite technology company developing low‑Earth‑orbit positioning, navigation and timing (LEO‑PNT) services, maritime communication, lunar infrastr... 1 minimal

Indexed API documents (10)

Two numbers, both real: these providers publish 10 APIs as their own documents, which the catalog indexes split one-per-resource into 10 documents.

StellarStation API

Public gRPC API for the StellarStation ground-station-as-a-service platform. Lets satellite operators list upcoming available passes, res...

JAXA Earth API

Provides access to over 100 Earth observation satellite datasets from JAXA missions including ALOS, GCOM-C, and GCOM-W. Delivers data in ...

G-Portal Web API

OGC-compliant web services for searching and accessing JAXA Earth observation satellite products from missions including GCOM-W (AMSR2), ...

GSMaP Global Rainfall Watch API

Provides global satellite-based precipitation estimates through the Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) product. Delivers n...

ALOS User Interface Gateway 2 (AUIG2)

Online search and ordering system for ALOS and ALOS-2 synthetic aperture radar and optical observation data. Authorized users can search ...

JAXA Himawari P-Tree Data Service

Provides near-real-time and archive access to Himawari geostationary meteorological satellite imagery and derived products. Data accessib...

JAXA CSW API

Catalog Services for the Web - search satellite observation collections and granules

JAXA WCS API

Web Coverage Service - retrieve raw coverage/raster data from satellite datasets

JAXA WMS API

Web Map Service - retrieve map imagery from satellite datasets

Clover API

Ground station reservation service API for ArkEdge Space satellites.

Other industries in Japan

Artificial Intelligence 32 Data & Analytics 15 Industrial 14 E-Commerce Platform 13 IoT & Connected Devices 13 Education & EdTech 12 Healthcare 12 Digital Health & Telehealth 11 Financial Technology 11 Payments & Money Movement 11 Developer Tools & DevOps 10 Semiconductors & Hardware 10 All of Japan →

Space & Satellite elsewhere

North America 75 Europe 31 United Kingdom & Ireland 15 Australia & New Zealand 13 Greater China 9 MENA (Middle East & North Africa) 7 Middle East 7 DACH (Germany · Austria · Switzerland) 6 India & South Asia 5 Japan & Korea 4 Global / Multi-region 3 Nordics 3 All of Space & Satellite →

This page is the intersection of two independently computed cohorts: Japan and Space & Satellite. A provider appears here only when it is already a member of both. Japan membership is matched on tag, stated HQ, so this is a floor rather than a census — coverage gaps show up here as small numbers, not as absent pages.

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  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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