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 plans to attempt a sea-based test of the Hyperbola-2Y next year after completing ground tests.
Orbit Fab plans to work with lunar exploration company ispace on propellant harvesting and delivery.
iSpace is developing the Hyperbola-3 reusable launch vehicle and obtained flight data from Hyperbola-2Y tests to verify key technologies for Hyperbola-3.
iSpace targets a first flight of the Hyperbola-3 rocket, with a 13.4-metric-ton payload to low Earth orbit (LEO), in 2025.
ispace’s Mission 2 is scheduled for launch in 2024 and is led by ispace’s headquarters office.
In 2023, Galactic Energy, iSpace, Landspace, Space Pioneer, CAS Space, and Expace reached orbit and collectively accounted for 16 of China’s 58 orbital launches.
In 2023, China’s commercial launch companies CAS Space, Galactic Energy, iSpace, Expace, Space Pioneer, and Landspace reached orbit.
iSpace developed the variable-thrust JD-1/Focus-1 methalox engine for its reusable Hyperbola rocket series.
The planned UAE small rover for Chang’e-7 was intended to be based on the Rashid rover that was lost aboard ispace’s Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander.
ispace EUROPE was selected by NASA in December 2020 to acquire lunar regolith for purchase by the space agency.
ispace engineers have been assembling the Mission 2 RESILIENCE lander flight model at JAXA’s facility in Tsukuba, Japan since September 2023 for final environmental testing.
Mission 2 aims to further validate the RESILIENCE lander’s design and technology and to test ispace’s business model for providing lunar transportation and data services.
ispace unveiled the final design of its micro rover on 2023-11-16 in Tokyo, Japan.
ispace engineers have been assembling the Mission 2 RESILIENCE lander flight model at JAXA’s facility in Tsukuba, Japan since September 2023.
ispace is designing, manufacturing, and assembling the Mission 2 micro rover in its ispace EUROPE office.
Epiroc and ispace signed a HAKUTO-R Corporate Partnership agreement to work together on Mission 2 activities related to lunar regolith collection and transfer of ownership to NASA.
ispace EUROPE was selected by NASA in December 2020 to acquire regolith from the lunar surface for purchase by the space agency.
Mission 2 will transport five payloads to the lunar surface, including a micro rover developed by ispace Europe.
iSpace is targeting a first flight of the Hyperbola-3 rocket to low Earth orbit in 2025 with a mass to LEO of 13.4 metric tons.
The Hyperbola-2Y hop test is part of iSpace’s plan to develop the Hyperbola-3 rocket with a reusable first stage.