4. Japan
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Also known as JAXA, Japan’s Aerospace eXploration Agency, has a budget of an estimated $2 billion. The agency was formed in 2003 through the merger of three different organizations with a distant background, the oldest having been formed in 1955.
The Japanese agency does a lot of research and it has launched plenty of satellites, as well as various spacecrafts. One, for instance, went out to an asteroid near Earth,, collected some samples and returned home back in 2010, after a 7 year mission. They also research the Moon, the Sun and are excelling at radio astronomy.