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 offer about 24.7 million shares out of 78.6 million issued in the initial public offering.
ispace launched its first lunar lander in December 2022.
ispace’s Mission 1 interim success provided feedback used in full-scale development for Mission 2 and Mission 3.
A press conference was hosted in Tokyo on 2023-02-28 where Takeshi Hakamada, Founder and CEO of ispace, and Ryo Ujiie, CTO of ispace, participated along with other executives.
ispace’s flight team expects to complete all deep space orbital maneuvers before Lunar Orbital Insertion around mid-March 2023.
ispace’s micro rover on Mission 2 will collect a regolith sample that will be transferred to NASA under a 2020 contract awarded to ispace’s European subsidiary.
ispace, inc. is developing Mission 2, planned for 2024, and Mission 3, planned for 2025.
ispace is developing a Mission 2 lander scheduled for launch in 2024 that will carry a set of customer payloads and a micro rover developed by ispace.
ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 spacecraft launched on a Falcon 9 on 2022-12-11.
Subsidiaries of CASC, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, commercial launch company iSpace, and Deep Blue Aerospace have signed contracts to establish a presence in Wenchang International Aerospace City.
Expace, Landspace, iSpace, Galactic Energy, Space Pioneer, Deep Blue Aerospace, Orienspace, and Rocket Pi are all seeking to reach orbit 2023 or next.
iSpace had achieved orbit with Hyperbola-1 in 2019 and subsequently experienced three consecutive launch failures before 2023.
iSpace planned vertical takeoff, vertical landing tests in 2023 for its reusable methalox Hyperbola-2 rocket.
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight cubesat launched 2022-12-09 as a secondary payload on a Falcon 9 launch of a commercial lunar lander by Japanese company ispace.
The first stage booster supporting the Hispasat Amazonas Nexus mission previously launched ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1.
The Falcon 9 booster used for the Amazonas Nexus launch previously launched the SES-22 broadcast satellite, a lunar lander for ispace, and three Starlink broadband missions.
iSpace could return to test launch the Hyperbola-2 reusable methalox launcher in 2023.
NASA procured a rideshare launch opportunity and launched Lunar Flashlight on a Falcon 9 on 2022-12-11, along with the Hakuto-R lunar lander from the Japanese company ispace.
HAKUTO-R 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 managed HAKUTO-R Mission 1 operations from its mission control center in Nihonbashi, Tokyo.