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 will weigh and evaluate mission anomaly results against predefined criteria and incorporate those results into future missions planned between now and 2025.
ispace completed all check outs of the customer payloads carried on board the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander on 2022-12-16.
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.
By completing the customer payload check outs, ispace achieved Success 3 of its Mission 1 milestones.
The ispace lander is planned to reach approximately 1.4 million kilometers from Earth around 2023-01-20, as the farthest point during Mission 1.
ispace established 10 milestones between launch and landing for HAKUTO-R Mission 1 and aims to achieve the success criteria for each milestone.
Mission 2 and Mission 3 of ispace will contribute to NASA’s Artemis Program and aim to improve the maturity of ispace’s technology and business model.
The ispace lander maintained a stable attitude and power supply while completing the first orbit control maneuver at 12:00 on 2022-12-15 Japan Standard Time.
ispace completed the first orbital control maneuver for HAKUTO-R Mission 1 on 2022-12-15.
Mission 2 and Mission 3 will contribute to NASA’s Artemis Program and aim to further improve ispace’s technology and business model.
Beijing-based iSpace is developing a methalox rocket called Hyperbola-2 and unveiled a first-stage test article at Jiuquan in preparation for hop tests.
ispace has defined 10 milestones between launch and landing for Mission 1 and aims to achieve the success criteria established for each milestone.
ispace successfully captured images and transmitted them to the HAKUTO-R Mission Control Center on 2022-12-14.
ispace successfully acquired images taken by one of the Canadensys lunar imaging system cameras, a Mission 1 payload.
ispace Mission 2 and Mission 3 will contribute to NASA’s Artemis Program and further improve ispace’s technology and business model.
Mission Control provided an artificial intelligence–integrated flight computer to ispace Mission 1 to classify types of geological features as a rover drives around the lunar surface.
NGC Aerospace Ltd. will receive lunar imagery from ispace Mission 1 to test a planetary navigation system similar to GPS.
ispace Mission 1 launched on 2022-12-11 at 2:38 a.m. ET on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket bound for the Moon.
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.
Canadensys Aerospace Corporation’s imaging system will be used to image two rovers as they are deployed from opposite sides of the ispace lander.