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 launched and landed a test article for its methane–liquid oxygen Hyperbola-3 rocket in November 2023.
Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology Ltd. (iSpace) reached orbit in 2019 as the first privately funded Chinese company to do so with the solid-fueled Hyperbola-1.
Beijing-based iSpace’s four-stage solid Hyperbola-1 rocket lifted off from Jiuquan spaceport at 7:40 p.m. Eastern (2340 UTC) on 2024-07-10.
Yuji Inoue serves as Standing Audit & Supervisory Member of ispace.
Maki Setogawa serves as a support to the External Auditor of ispace.
Takashi Kuwauchi retired from the position of External Director of ispace after his term expired at the conclusion of the Shareholders Meeting.
Yoshihide Todoroki and Agasa Naito continue to serve as External Audit & Supervisory Board Members of ispace.
Takeshi Hakamada is the Founder and CEO of ispace, inc.
ispace, inc. reappointed 7 members of its Board of Directors at the 14th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders on June 28, 2024.
Takeshi Hakamada expressed gratitude to Takashi Kuwauchi for his dedicated service to ispace since its time as a private company.
Jumpei Nozaki serves as the CFO and was reappointed as a Director of ispace, inc.
ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 2 RESILIENCE flight model completed thermal vacuum testing at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Japan.
In December 2020, ispace EUROPE was selected by NASA to acquire lunar regolith to be purchased by the space agency.
Mission 2 is planned for 2024 and is led by the ispace Japan entity.
ispace operates three business units in Japan, the United States, and Luxembourg for the simultaneous development of Mission 2 and Mission 3.
Mission 3 is planned for 2026 and is led by the ispace U.S. entity.
APEX 1.0 is the lunar lander that ispace-U.S. will use for Mission 3.
SSC will leverage four SSC Connect deep space ground station sites to support ispace-U.S.’s Mission 3.
SSC will provide communication links to ispace-U.S. Mission 3 through its SSC Connect lunar ground station network capabilities.
ispace technologies U.S., Inc. (ispace-U.S.) and Swedish Space Corporation (SSC Space US) have signed a collaboration agreement for ispace-U.S.’s upcoming Mission 3 with the APEX 1.0 lunar lander.