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 has $55,000,000 earmarked for Mission 3 as its share of the CLPS award to Draper.
ispace completed a sale of 10.25 million shares on 2024-03-28, raising approximately 8,100,000,000 JPY ($53,500,000).
ispace offered the shares solely to institutional investors outside of Japan to diversify its investor base and improve liquidity of those shares.
ispace won a grant from the Japanese government worth 12,000,000,000 JPY in October 2023 to support work on Mission 6.
Intersteller Walk signed a launch agreement with Beijing-based launch service provider iSpace for a mission to demonstrate patented docking port technology using a satellite equipped with two robotic arms.
ispace technologies U.S., inc. (ispace-U.S.) signed a payload services agreement with Rhea Space Activity to deliver autonomous guidance and navigation technology to lunar orbit aboard ispace-U.S.’s Mission 3 scheduled for 2026.
ispace plans to progressively increase the APEX series payload capacity to eventually reach 500 kg.
Rhea Space Activity’s JAM modules will be flown in conjunction with ispace-U.S.’s contribution to the Draper-led Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative to deliver Artemis science investigations to the far side of the Moon in 2026.
The Draper-led lunar lander mission will carry the APEX 1.0 lander that ispace U.S. will design and operate to the far side of the Moon as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.
ispace operates business entities around the world to support its lunar and cislunar activities.
The UK Space Agency announced funding for the University of Leicester and ispace to develop a Lunar Spectrometer for future exploration missions to investigate water ice on the Moon.
iSpace is developing the Hyperbola-3 methane-liquid oxygen reusable rocket with a payload capacity of 8,500 kg to LEO and a first flight planned for 2025.
ispace EUROPE S.A. and Control Data Systems SRL signed a memorandum of understanding on 2024-03-01 related to payload services and strategic cooperation on future lunar missions.
HAKUTO-R M1, a lander developed by Japanese company ispace, crashed on its final approach to the moon in April 2023 after its onboard computer disregarded altitude information and concluded the lander was on the surface when it was about five kilometers above it.
iSpace’s Hyperbola-3 is a methane-liquid oxygen reusable launcher with a payload capacity of 8,500 kg to LEO and a first flight planned for 2025.
Multiple Chinese companies are developing reusable rockets, including iSpace’s Hyperbola-3, Landspace’s Zhuque-3, Galactic Energy’s Pallas-1, CAS Space’s Kinetica 2, Deep Blue Aerospace’s Nebula-1, and Space Pioneer’s Tianlong-3.
The agreements commit mu Space and ispace to collaborate on developing the cislunar satellite market by coordinating transportation and deployment for lunar satellite payload customers while supplying satellite components.
ispace became the first lunar transportation service provider to successfully launch a lunar lander in December 2022.
mu Space and ispace agreed to collaborate on development of the cislunar satellite market by coordinating transportation and deployment for lunar satellite payload customers while supplying satellite components.
mu Space will collaborate with ispace capital to prove key technologies and build a foundation for future lunar endeavors.