ispace is a Japanese lunar exploration company that aims to provide low-cost and frequent transportation services to the Moon. They specialize in designing and building lunar landers and rovers for payload delivery and data collection. ispace has partnerships with organizations like JAXA and ESA, and their customers include government space agencies, research institutions, and private companies. The company's vision is to expand human presence beyond Earth by enabling the utilization of lunar resources.
All verified mentions of this organization in source documents.
ispace is developing the Series 3 lunar lander utilizing a Small Business Innovation (SBIR) grant from Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
The payload for lunar water resource exploration technology is being developed by a project team that includes ispace and collaborating institutions.
ispace is developing the Series 3 Lunar Lander through a Small Business Innovation Research grant from Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry.
Takasago Thermal Engineering has participated as a corporate partner of ispace since 2019.
Magna Petra Corp. aims to establish a sustainable supply chain for helium-3, including sample return functionality through its collaboration with ispace.
ispace has signed a payload service contract with Magna Petra Corp. to transport analytical devices to the Moon.
The HALO mission includes deploying NASA's MSOLO mass spectrometer on a small lunar lander during ispace's third mission.
Under the agreement, ispace-EUROPE will integrate NASA's Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSOLO) instrument into its upcoming Mission 3 lunar micro-rover platform.
The total contract amount between ispace and Magna Petra Corp. is $22 million.
On October 2, 2025, ispace completed environmental testing using the Structure and Thermal Model (STM) of its Series 3 lander, which is being developed with the support of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's SBIR subsidy.
From April 2025, ispace conducted vibration tests, acoustic tests, and thermal vacuum tests on the thermal structure model at the JAXA Tsukuba Space Center's environmental testing facilities.
ispace is developing the Series 3 lander as part of a project funded by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's SBIR program, with a budget of 12 billion yen.
There were almost no major issues found in the environmental tests, and ispace is considering both increasing reliability and reducing weight simultaneously.
ispace completed the basic structural design and thermal design verification of the thermal structure model for its Series 3 lander on October 2.
ispace's Series 3 Lunar Lander recently completed Thermal Vacuum testing at JAXA facilities in Tsukuba, Japan.
ispace is currently considering which rockets will launch the lander domestically and internationally for its Mission 4 in 2028.
ispace aims to complete the flight model after continuing development.