Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
23 satellites in orbit, 11 operating.
The count is the catalogue’s as of Nov 9, 2026, 8:17 AM; whether a satellite is operating is as Orbinauts writes it where it has written when the satellite’s mission ended, and otherwise as Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue believes it, licensed CC BY 4.0: GCAT
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is how GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue (CC BY 4.0), names the organisation under the code JAXA, of Japan (Nippon), State of. This page gathers the satellites it flies and those of every organisation under it, each row naming the organisation that flies it.
The live map has no filter that picks out exactly these satellites.
| Satellite | Kind | Orbit class | Launched | Operating | Flown by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 (ALOS-2) | Earth-watching satellite | Low Earth orbit | Yes | ||
| RAISE-4 | Not known | Low Earth orbit | Yes | ||
| GOSAT-GW | Earth-watching satellite | Low Earth orbit | Yes | ||
| ALOS-4 | Earth-watching satellite | Low Earth orbit | Yes | ||
| XRISM | Space telescope | Low Earth orbit | Yes | ||
| RAISE 2 | Not known | Low Earth orbit | Ended | ||
| GOSAT 2 | Earth-watching satellite | Low Earth orbit | Yes | ||
| GCOM-C | Earth-watching satellite | Low Earth orbit | Yes | ||
| ARASE (ERG) | Not known | Highly elliptical orbit | Yes | Institute of Space and Astronautical Sci | |
| ASTRO H | Space telescope | Low Earth orbit | Ended | ||
| SPRINT A | Space telescope | Low Earth orbit | Ended | Institute of Space and Astronautical Sci | |
| SDS-4 | Not known | Low Earth orbit | Ended | ||
| GCOM W1 | Earth-watching satellite | Low Earth orbit | Yes | ||
| QZS-1 (MICHIBIKI) | Navigation satellite | Medium Earth orbit | Ended | ||
| SDS-1 | Not known | Low Earth orbit | Ended | ||
| GOSAT (IBUKI) | Earth-watching satellite | Low Earth orbit | Yes | ||
| WINDS (KIZUNA) | Communications satellite | Inclined geosynchronous | Ended | ||
| ETS 8 | Communications satellite | Inclined geosynchronous | Ended | ||
| HINODE (SOLAR B) | Space telescope | Low Earth orbit | Yes | Institute of Space and Astronautical Sci | |
| ALOS | Earth-watching satellite | Low Earth orbit | Ended | ||
| INDEX | Not known | Low Earth orbit | Ended | Institute of Space and Astronautical Sci | |
| OICETS | Communications satellite | Low Earth orbit | Ended | ||
| HIMAWARI 6 | Earth-watching satellite | Inclined geosynchronous | Ended |