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-U.S. plans to progressively increase the APEX series payload capacity to eventually reach a payload capacity of 500 kg to the lunar surface.
APEX 1.0 is designed to deliver ten times more payload to the lunar surface compared to earlier ispace missions.
ispace will receive approximately U.S. $45,000,000 from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation on 2024-04-30 as working capital for development and operation of Mission 3 and Mission 6.
ispace provided U.S. dollar conversion of the financing amount using an FX rate based on the past one-month average in March 2024.
iSpace’s Hyperbola-3 is a methane-liquid oxygen reusable rocket with a payload capacity of 8,500 kg to low Earth orbit and its first flight is planned for 2025.
The ispace EUROPE team in Luxembourg will build and test the final Micro Rover flight model.
In December 2020, ispace EUROPE was selected by NASA to acquire lunar regolith for purchase by the space agency.
The ispace group aims to develop the cislunar economy through its three business entities in Japan, the United States, and Europe.
ispace, inc. and ispace-U.S. support the space policies and industries of both countries and provide lunar transportation services to contribute to establishing a long-term human presence on the Moon.
ispace plans to progressively increase the APEX series payload capacity, eventually reaching 500 kg to the lunar surface.
ispace technologies U.S., inc. contracted Blue Canyon Technologies to design and manufacture two Venus-class microsatellite buses for ispace-U.S.’s Mission 3 scheduled for 2026.
ispace’s APEX 1.0 lunar lander is designed and built in the United States as the company’s next-generation lander.
APEX 1.0 is designed to deliver ten times more payload to the lunar surface compared to earlier ispace missions.
ispace-U.S. will contribute to the Draper-led Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative to deliver payloads for scientific investigations to the far side of the Moon in 2026.
The Blue Canyon-built bus housing ispace-U.S.’s communications payload will serve as the data relay between Earth and the far side of the Moon to enable rapid data transmission from the lander and its payloads.
ispace-U.S. and Dr. Alan Stern will partner in several business areas to help develop the lunar economy and increase ispace-U.S.’s footprint in the U.S. market.
ispace is spending 2,100,000,000 JPY to cover part of the Mission 3 launch cost on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
ispace will use 1,800,000,000 JPY to cover part of the cost of two relay satellites being built by Blue Canyon Technologies to handle communications between the farside lander and Earth.
ispace will use 1,000,000,000 JPY of the raised funds for other working capital.
About 7,100,000,000 JPY of the funds will go toward various elements of Mission 3, a lander being developed by ispace U.S. for Draper.