UK and Japan space agencies team for orbital telemetry network

The UK Space Agency (UKSA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have teamed to build an in-orbit telemetry relay service named InRange to assist Japan's latest launch rocket, the H3. "By using the InRange service for the H3 launch vehicle, launch trajectories can be optimized by removing reliance on line-of-sight …

[Jimmy2Cows]

JAXA provide transmitter, antenna development, integrating service into ground infrastructure

And so UKSA is doing what exactly? Seems like JAXA's doing all the work and we're pleading "Yeah but we helped!"

[graeme leggett]

Re: JAXA provide transmitter, antenna development, integrating service into ground infrastructure

The UKSA has the money in the form of the International Bilateral Fund which in this case seems to be linked to the Viasat side of things.