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, Expace, Space Pioneer, and Landspace reached orbit in 2023, and Orienspace aimed to conduct its first launch with the Gravity-1 solid rocket in the second half of 2023.
Israel's SpaceIL crashed during a landing attempt in April 2019, while Japan's ispace also crashed during a landing attempt in April 2023.
Beijing-based iSpace tested engines for its Hyperbola-2 methane-liquid oxygen launcher.
Agile Space Industries is supplying thrusters for robotic lunar landers being built by Astrobotic Technology and Japan’s ispace.
ispace technologies U.S. is developing ispace’s Series-2 lunar lander in preparation for its third mission scheduled for 2025.
Commercial Chinese launch companies Galactic Energy and iSpace have launched solid rockets in the same class 2023.
ispace is developing a second lander, M2, which remained on schedule for launch in 2024.
Because the M1 lander did not complete its final mission milestones, ispace will lose about 100,000,000 JPY (approximately $710,000) in revenue from the mission's payload customers.
ispace obtained the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 flight data at its Mission Control Center in Nihonbashi, Tokyo.
ispace reviewed and completed the analysis of the flight data from its HAKUTO-R Mission 1 landing sequence on 2023-04-26.
ispace will incorporate the Mission 1 analysis into software design and will upgrade and expand the scope of preparatory landing-sequence simulations for Mission 2 and Mission 3.
NASA instead launched Lunar Flashlight as a secondary payload on a Falcon 9 launch of the HAKUTO-R M1 lander operated by the Japanese company ispace, which lifted off less than a month after Artemis 1.
ispace successfully reached cislunar space and orbited the Moon during Mission 1.
ispace will apply data and know-how acquired during Mission 1 and the landing sequence to improve technological maturity for Mission 2 in 2024 and Mission 3 in 2025.
ispace is developing a second lander, M2, similar in design to M1 that is scheduled for launch in late 2024 and that will carry customer payloads and an ispace-developed micro rover.
The M2 micro rover will collect a regolith sample that will be transferred to NASA under a 2020 contract awarded to ispace’s European subsidiary.
ispace’s U.S. subsidiary is developing a larger Series 2 lander for a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission led by Draper scheduled for 2025.
ispace plans Mission 2 and Mission 3 to contribute to NASA’s Artemis Program and to further improve the maturity of ispace’s technology and business model.
ispace, inc.'s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Lunar Lander has completed all planned orbital control maneuvers for Mission 1.
ispace has backup landing opportunities for HAKUTO-R M1 on 2023-04-26, 2023-05-01, and 2023-05-03.