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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Takeshi Hakamada is CEO & Founder of ispace and will supervise the company’s business strategy effective 2024-11-01.
The management change at ispace was announced in Tokyo on 2024-11-01.
iSpace’s Hyperbola-3 uses methane-liquid oxygen propellant and has a payload capacity of 8,500 kg to Low Earth Orbit with a first flight planned for 2025.
Mission 3, which debuts the APEX 1.0 lunar lander, is led by ispace-U.S. and is expected to launch in 2026.
ispace-U.S. and Astroport signed a memorandum of understanding that serves as an initial framework for negotiations on missions to deliver and deploy Astroport’s scientific instruments to the lunar surface by the APEX 1.0 lander.
ispace Mission 3 is expected to launch in 2026.
ispace Mission 3 is led by ispace-U.S. and will debut the APEX 1.0 lunar lander.
ispace Mission 6 will utilize the Series 3 lander currently being designed in Japan and is scheduled to launch by 2027.
ispace, inc. and HEX20Labs India Private Limited reached an agreement for a future cubesat deployment into lunar orbit on 2024-10-17 at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan.
ispace is negotiating with government, commercial, and educational customers, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region, to provide payload service contracts and data services for Mission 3 and subsequent missions.
ispace signed a memorandum of understanding in October 2023 with Skyroot Aerospace Private Limited and HEX20 to collaborate on development of future lunar satellite missions.
ispace plans Mission 2 to launch no earlier than December 2024 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The IAF Excellence in Industry Award was presented to ispace Founder & CEO Takeshi Hakamada at the International Astronautical Conference 2024 in Milan, Italy on 2024-10-16.
Mission 1 was a fully privately funded mission by ispace that launched a lunar lander in December 2022.
Mission 3 is planned for 2026 and will be led by the ispace U.S. entity.
Mission 2 is planned for 2024 and will be led by the ispace Japan entity.
Takasago Thermal Engineering Co. provided water electrolyzer equipment as a payload integrated for Mission 2 as a HAKUTO-R corporate partner.
Resilience uses the HAKUTO-R design that ispace’s first lander used when it crashed attempting a lunar landing in April 2023.
ispace Mission 2, featuring the RESILIENCE lunar lander and TENACIOUS micro rover, is planned to launch no earlier than December 2024.
Tokyo Keiki Corporation will collaborate with ispace on research and development of space equipment as part of its TOKYO KEIKI Vision 2030 to expand its business offerings.