The Debrief: Tokyo’s Space Startups Win U.S. Business—Is This ‘Japan Inc. 2.0’?

 Astroscale’s rendezvous and proximity operations technology has dual military and commercial uses.

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Japan’s space startups—and their U.S. subsidiaries—are playing a prominent role in several U.S. Space Force and NASA missions. The success of these companies in part validates Tokyo’s new space industrial policy: a sort of “Japan Inc. 2.0” in which government ministries, venture capital and startups...

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