Japanese Spaceguard Association

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Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA), the National Aeronautic Laboratory (NAL), and the Space and Technology Agency have allocated the necessary funds to bring the Japanese Spaceguard Association (JSGA) on-line.

This Observatory is located near Bisei town, Japan. In addition to the search for NEOs, this facility will be used to track debris in Earth orbit. The 1-meter Cassegrain telescope has a field of view of three degrees and there are plans to use a mosaic of ten CCD detectors each one of which will have dimensions of 2096 x 4096 pixels. A 0.5-meter telescope with a field of view of 2 x 2 degrees began operations in February 2000. Once the 1-meter NEO search telescope begins operations, the 0.5-meter telescope will be used to provide follow-up astrometric observations.