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 created the Chief People Officer position to oversee an expansion in the size of the company’s workforce and to develop a full-scale global organization.
ispace completed Mission 1 in May 2023, which aimed to become the world’s first commercial company to land on the moon.
ispace, which is traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, lowered its sales forecast for the fiscal year through March 2024 by more than 50% to 3,050,000,000 JPY due to Mission 3 delays delaying payload revenue recognition.
The Draper-led NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission known to ispace as Mission 3 and to NASA as CP-12 was originally projected to launch in 2025 and has slipped to 2026 because of the lander redesign.
ispace technologies U.S. unveiled a revised lunar lander design called APEX 1.0 at an event on 2023-09-28 in Centennial, Colorado.
ispace established a new 4,600-square-meter U.S. headquarters in Centennial, Colorado to support production of future lunar landers and a growing engineering workforce.
ispace technologies U.S. invested over $40,000,000 in ispace technologies U.S.
ispace – U.S. joined Team Draper in 2022 as the lunar lander design agent to deliver NASA-sponsored science and commercial payloads to the Moon’s far side under the CLPS program (CP-12 mission).
ispace, inc.’s revised net sales forecast represents a ¥3,146 million (USD $21,700,000) decline from the original forecast.
ispace, inc. revised its net loss upward by ¥3,385 million (USD $23,400,000) to a net loss of ¥4,504 million (USD $31,100,000).
ispace – U.S. anticipates completing Mission 3’s Critical Design Review (CDR) not later than the fiscal year end of March 2024.
ispace technologies U.S. is designing and plans to manufacture the APEX 1.0 lunar lander at its Denver headquarters.
ispace, inc. revised its fiscal year March 2024 net sales forecast to ¥3,050 million (USD $21,100,000) after the transition to APEX 1.0 and the Mission 3 schedule update.
ispace technologies U.S. staffed its Denver headquarters with more than 80 U.S. team members and plans to expand to more than 100 by the end of the year to support APEX 1.0 design and future production.
CAS Space, Galactic Energy, iSpace, Expace, Space Pioneer, and Landspace reached orbit in 2023.
The group of Chinese commercial launch firms had launched 11 times in 2023, surpassing the total of 10 missions conducted by Expace, CAS Space, China Rocket, Galactic Energy, and iSpace in 2022.
Six firms—Galactic Energy, iSpace, Landspace, Space Pioneer, CAS Space, and Expace—reached orbit in 2023.
Chinese commercial launch companies Galactic Energy, iSpace, Space Pioneer, Landspace, CAS Space, and Expace had all reached orbit in 2023.
Commercial firms Galactic Energy, iSpace, Space Pioneer, and Landspace, and state-owned commercial spinoffs CAS Space and Expace, reached orbit in 2023.
Chinese commercial launch companies CAS Space, iSpace, Expace, Space Pioneer, and Landspace reached orbit in 2023.