The EU-Japan Centre successfully completed its onsite Space Business Mission, from 28 to 31 January. The mission was centered around the International Space Industry Exhibition, one of the largest space business exhibitions in Japan, bringing together robots and products specialized for space development and lunar exploration, rocket development and manufacturing, launch infrastructure, satellite utilization, and space-related services on the ground in the space-related market. The EU-Japan Centre welcomed 9 European SMEs and 1 cluster from 6 European countries.  On the first day of the exhibition, the EU-Japan Centre presented ongoing efforts and projects in the EU at a seminar within the exhibition halls. Different elements of the EU Space Programme were discussed, and the space industry within the EU was illustrated in a concise overview. The European companies participating in the Space Business Mission were also introduced and promoted. 
This year, ISIEX was attended by 26,268 visitors over the course of three days. The Space Business Mission emphasized the strong ties within the international space industry sector, facilitating and creating valuable connections between European and Japanese space innovators.

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“The EU-Japan Space Mission was a unique opportunity for our company to exhibit at the ISIEX2025 in a meaningful way, i.e., with documentation (poster and leaflets translated in Japanese) and with excellent support from the translators at the booth, which turned out to be invaluable! The ISIEX2025 gave us the chance to meet face-to-face with some of our current Japanese partners and customers and to reach out to potential new partners. It seems that in the Japanese business culture, it is especially important to meet the people face to face in order to have a good business relation, hence our participation in the ISIEX2025 at the EU-Japan shared booth was -hopefully- a perfect start of a few new cooperations!”

By Tom Hoppenbrouwers, Business developer at Space Applications Services