AS3488 JAXANET Information Systems Department, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

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.