1 July 2026 – Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it has been awarded a subsidy for the Development of Internationally Competitive Full Digital Payload under the Development and Demonstration of Technologies for Internationally Competitive Communications Payloads, which is being financed by the 2nd phase of the Space Strategy Fund1 managed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Mitsubishi Electric was previously selected as a representative organization for the project. Moving forward, the company aims to develop a full digital payload2 that offers communication flexibility and high security. Mitsubishi Electric aims to develop a full digital payload offering both communication flexibility and high security, leveraging know-how it cultivated when developing the Engineering Test Satellite-9 commissioned by JAXA. Read more