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.
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ispace plans to equip its next landers with visual sensors and additional telemetry to improve descent awareness and prevent crashes.
ispace is considering the development of an Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) based on the technology from its current lander development.
ispace has already verified the technology to deploy landers into lunar orbit through two lunar landing attempts in 2023 and 2025.
The cooperation agreement enables ispace to expand its collaboration with Orbital Space in the UAE.
ispace is considering the development of an Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) derived from lander development technology.
ElevationSpace and ispace will conduct technical demonstrations to verify the feasibility of missions using the OTV and a sample return atmospheric reentry capsule developed by ElevationSpace.
After a second crash-landing, ispace concluded that a technical issue with the lander’s Laser Range Finder was responsible.
ispace has been attempting to land a spacecraft on the lunar surface for the last few years but has not yet succeeded.
ispace attempted lunar landings with landers in 2023 and 2025, both of which were unsuccessful, but successfully demonstrated technology for deploying landers into lunar orbit.
ElevationSpace and ispace will collaborate on activities aimed at the early realization of the lunar sample return mission.
ispace and ElevationSpace will jointly advance activities to achieve early lunar sample return.
ispace and ElevationSpace signed a basic agreement aimed at the development of technology and business opportunities for lunar sample return.
ElevationSpace and ispace will engage domestic and international governments, space agencies, and potential private customers to create Japan's first lunar sample return business opportunity.
Both ispace’s offices in Europe and Japan won NASA awards worth $5,000 each in 2020 to collect lunar regolith and sell it to the agency.
ispace, inc. has teamed up with Japanese in-orbit transportation startup ElevationSpace to develop a private mission to return samples from the lunar surface.
ispace CEO Takeshi Hakamada stated that combining ElevationSpace's technologies with ispace's orbital transport vehicle will bring them closer to realizing a sample return.
ispace and UAE-based Orbital Space have reached a mutual strategic cooperation agreement to jointly promote and implement educational lunar missions involving student-developed payloads.
ispace and ElevationSpace are collaborating on various aspects of the lunar sample return mission, including mission architecture, feasibility, and re-entry.
Ispace aims to deliver its first Hyperbola 3 rocket at HCSLC in October.
Chengdu Major Industrialization Project Phase II Equity Investment Fund led the funding round for iSpace.