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, inc. released an updated launch schedule for its Mission 1 lunar lander on 2022-11-25.
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance began working with ispace in 2019.
ispace expects SpaceX to launch its HAKUTO-R M1 lunar lander on 2022-11-28 at the earliest for a mission to the moon’s surface roughly five months later.
MSI reached an agreement with ispace, inc. to provide a lunar insurance policy that comprehensively covers risks arising from ispace’s Mission 1 from rocket launch to lunar landing.
ispace partnered with CITIZEN to produce the HAKUTO-R M1 countdown clock positioned in front of the HAKUTO-R Mission Control Center.
ispace selected the Atlas Crater at 47.5°N, 44.4°E on the southeastern outer edge of Mare Frigoris as Mission 1’s primary landing site.
ispace projects that by 2040 the Moon will support a population of 1,000 people with 10,000 visitors every year.
ispace signed a Memorandum of Understanding in April 2022 to utilize MSI’s new lunar insurance plan for risks arising in its lunar business.
ispace plans to utilize the MSI lunar insurance policy for its first mission, Mission 1, planned to launch as early as November 2022.
NASA awarded a second contract to ispace EUROPE S.A. for acquiring lunar material on ispace’s second mission scheduled for 2024 as part of the HAKUTO-R program.
The ispace license allows ispace to complete a NASA contract awarded in December 2020 to acquire lunar regolith from the lunar surface to sell to NASA.
ispace EUROPE S.A. will acquire lunar material on Mission 2 scheduled for 2024 as part of the HAKUTO-R program.
ispace planned to launch its first lunar mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida as early as 2022-11-22.
ispace’s lunar lander arrived in Cape Canaveral, Florida and will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 2022-11-22.
ispace previously targeted the HAKUTO-R M1 launch between 2022-11-09 and 15 but postponed the launch to no earlier than 2022-11-22.
ispace and SpaceX agreed to target no earlier than 2022-11-22 for launch of the HAKUTO-R M1.
In July 2022, NASA awarded Team Draper, which includes ispace subsidiary ispace technologies U.S., inc., $73,000,000 to deliver payloads including two communication relay satellites to lunar orbit and a suite of scientific experiments to the lunar surface.
ispace’s U.S. office is part of a Draper-led team that won a Commercial Lunar Payload Services award in July for a lander mission to the far side of the moon scheduled for launch in 2025.
ispace plans to launch its first HAKUTO-R M1 lander on a Falcon 9 between 2022-11-09 and 2022-11-15 from Cape Canaveral.
In July 2022, NASA awarded Team Draper, which includes ispace subsidiary ispace technologies U.S., inc., $73,000,000 to deliver payloads including two communication relay satellites to lunar orbit and a suite of scientific experiments to the lunar surface.