Autonomous system
AS3488 JAXANET Information Systems Department, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Hosting APNIC
Summary
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
government research legacy
JAXAnet is the network of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the national space agency of Japan, run by its Information Systems Department.
What it's used for
- Networking for Japan's national space program: agency campuses and research centers, engineering and mission-support systems, and the movement of scientific and satellite data.
- A government research network serving the agency's own facilities, not a commercial ISP or host.
Notable
- A national space agency is an unusual kind of holder to find this low in the AS number space, and it is one of the few non-US organizations down here — the low numbers are dominated by American universities, federal agencies, and early corporate adopters.
- Registry records associate the ASN with JAXA's Tsukuba networking, matching the agency's Tsukuba Space Center, its principal center for spacecraft development and operations.
Interesting
- JAXA was formed in 2003 from the merger of Japan's three predecessor space organizations, so the agency as it exists today is younger than the AS number it uses.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS2907 | Research Organization of Information and Systems, National Institute of Informatics | 556 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 51 prefixes · 115K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| JP | Japan | 51 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS3488- Registry name
- JAXAnet
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@nic.ad.jp
- Registered
- 2002-08-01
- Last changed
- 2025-12-17
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 13 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS3488
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 13 of 13 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS3488
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere