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 US will serve as the company’s US subsidiary’s first CLPS mission integrator with Draper Laboratory and is targeting a farside Moon landing in 2027 carrying NASA payloads and another rover from ispace Europe.
ispace Japan’s second Moon lander RESILIENCE launched in January with the aim of a Moon landing.
ispace targets June 5 at 19:24 UTC as the Moon landing date and time for the RESILIENCE lander.
ispace plans to begin RESILIENCE's descent to the lunar surface from its current circular orbit at approximately 100 kilometers altitude, which is higher than Chandrayaan-3's 30-kilometer and Firefly's Blue Ghost 20-kilometer descent start altitudes.
ispace Japan's second Moon lander RESILIENCE circularized its lunar orbit on May 28 with a roughly 10-minute main engine burn.
The UAE’s first near-identical Rashid rover launched in 2023 but could not operate on the Moon because ispace Japan’s first Moon lander carrying the rover crashed.
Mehak Sarang is Director of Industry Integration at the Open Lunar Foundation and previously worked at ispace-US, a subsidiary of ispace Japan building a lunar lander with Draper for NASA’s CLPS program.
iSpace secured hundreds of millions of Yuan in funding in early 2025.
iSpace was funded by the Sichuan Province Development Fund.
ispace Japan is partnering with SpaceData Inc. to build a system that replicates lunar gravity and communications delays and to build a high-resolution topographical model of the Moon based on data from ispace’s lunar missions.
Israel's SpaceIL and Japan's ispace crashed while attempting lunar landings.
Deep Blue Aerospace completed a B4 funding round of nearly ¥500 million shortly after iSpace raised hundreds of millions of dollars.
Japan's ispace will land its Resilience lander on the Moon in early June 2025.
The first lander mission by ispace crashed in April 2023 due to a software glitch.
The Moon lander duo from ispace Japan and Firefly Aerospace were launched by SpaceX on January 15 as a shared Falcon 9 ride to space.
ispace adhered to its success criteria during its first Moon mission despite a failed landing.
ISRO has publicly known cooperation arrangements with JAXA and Roscosmos but not with ispace Japan.
ispace targeted an attempted Hakuto-R touchdown in the lava plains of Mare Frigoris at approximately 60.5°N, 4.6°W after a four-month cruise.
ispace Japan’s Hakuto-R lander is carrying multiple commercial payloads and is attempting a follow-up landing after a prior failed landing attempt.
ispace verified Hakuto-R’s propulsion system by firing the main engine for its first orbital maneuver on January 17, 2026.