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 1 results against established criteria and incorporate findings into future missions planned through 2025.
Canadensys Aerospace Corporation provided an AI-enabled, operational lunar 360-degree imaging system with multiple cameras for ispace Mission 1.
NGC Aerospace Ltd. will use imagery from ispace Mission 1 to prepare a future mission in which the planetary navigation system will guide and support the safe landing of a lunar vehicle in a precise location.
The Draper CLPS mission will use a lander developed by ispace’s U.S. office that is significantly larger than the HAKUTO-R landers.
NASA procured a flight for Lunar Flashlight as a secondary payload on Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission and later moved it to the ispace launch when IM-1 slipped to March 2023.
SpaceX launched ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Lunar Flashlight to a lunar transfer orbit on 2022-12-11 at 2:38 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The Falcon 9 second stage, after a second burn, deployed the HAKUTO-R M1 spacecraft for Tokyo-based ispace 47 minutes after liftoff.
ispace has defined 10 milestones for Mission 1 between launch and landing and aims to achieve the success criteria established for each milestone.
ispace updated the launch schedule for its Mission 1 HAKUTO-R lunar lander to no earlier than 2022-12-11 for liftoff from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Galactic Energy’s Pallas-1 and iSpace’s Hyperbola-2 could launch in 2023.
Beijing-based iSpace is developing the methalox Hyperbola-2 and unveiled a first-stage test article at Jiuquan for hop tests.
Agile Space Industries is supplying thrusters for robotic lunar landers being built by Astrobotic Technology and ispace.
ispace has no plan to change the target lunar landing site for HAKUTO-R Mission 1 as of 2022-12-02 (JST).
ispace will launch HAKUTO Mission 1 using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
European Space Agency collaborates with ispace to provide communication services between ispace’s lunar spacecraft and ESA teams on Earth throughout the mission.
ESA provided sole ground station support to ispace via ispace EUROPE in Luxembourg for HAKUTO Mission 1, marking the first time ESA has provided sole ground station support for a commercial space mission.
The 2022-12-01 launch attempt of ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander was postponed to allow SpaceX to perform additional pre-flight checks of the launch vehicle.
ispace postponed the 2022-11-30 launch attempt of its HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander to 2022-12-01 to allow SpaceX to perform additional pre-flight checks of the launch vehicle.
ispace completed launch preparations including integration of the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander into the SpaceX Falcon 9 fairing on 2022-11-28.
Mission 2 and Mission 3 will further improve the maturity of ispace’s technology and business model.