# Usuda

*Ground station*

JAXA Usuda Deep Space Center, Nagano

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 36.1300° N, 138.3600° E |
| State | JP |
| What is done there | deep space ground station |
| Dish | 64 m |
| Still working | yes |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## What it is

Usuda Deep Space Center is a facility of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. It is a spacecraft tracking station in Saku, Nagano (formerly in Usuda, Nagano; Usuda merged into Saku in 2005), opened in October, 1984.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=36.13,138.36
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuda_Deep_Space_Center
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project. Description from Wikipedia (en). Description: CC BY-SA 4.0.