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 announced plans to go public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market on 2023-03-08.
In earlier filings ispace said it would sell about 24.7 million shares and later raised that to 26.5 million shares with an option to sell an additional 1.24 million shares.
The HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Lander performed its final orbital control maneuver at 10:08 JST on 2023-04-13 under direction from ispace engineers at the HAKUTO-R Mission Control Center in Nihonbashi, Tokyo.
The SERIES-2 lander is being designed by ispace U.S., the American subsidiary of Japanese lunar lander developer ispace.
Mission 2 and Mission 3 are intended to further improve the maturity of ispace’s technology and business model.
ispace identified three alternative landing sites and listed alternative landing dates of 2023-04-26, 2023-05-01, and 2023-05-03 depending on operational conditions.
ispace aims to achieve the success criteria established for each of the 10 Mission 1 milestones.
Mission 3 will use a larger lander developed by ispace’s U.S. subsidiary in partnership with Draper.
The HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Lunar Lander performed its lunar orbit insertion maneuver at 10:24 JST on 2023-03-21 under direction from ispace engineers at the HAKUTO-R Mission Control Center in Nihonbashi, Tokyo.
Mission 2 and Mission 3 will contribute to NASA’s Artemis Program and will further improve the maturity of ispace’s technology and business model.
ispace is developing a second lander, Mission 2, that is similar in design to the spacecraft now in lunar orbit and is scheduled to launch in 2024 carrying customer payloads and a micro rover developed by ispace.
ispace had raised nearly $200,000,000 through several private funding rounds.
ispace defined 10 milestones between launch and landing for Mission 1 and aims to achieve the success criteria established for each milestone.
The HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lander completed its fourth orbital control maneuver at 08:58 JST on 2023-03-17 under direction of ispace engineers in the Mission Control Center in Nihonbashi, Tokyo.
Mission 2 and Mission 3 of ispace will contribute to NASA’s Artemis Program and further improve ispace’s technology and business model.
The first-stage booster used on the CRS-27 mission was making its seventh flight after previously launching Hispasat Amazonas Nexus, SES-22, ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1, and three Starlink missions.
ispace raised $46,000,000 in a Series C funding round in August 2021.
ispace won approval on 2023-03-08 to list shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market.
ispace will set the IPO price of its offered shares on 2023-04-03.
ispace has raised nearly $200,000,000 in several private funding rounds.