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 planned to launch its Mission 1 (M1) lunar lander, part of the HAKUTO-R program, in a target window of 2022-11-09–15, 2022.
The contracts awarded to ispace and ispace EU marked NASA’s first planned commercial transaction for space resources.
ispace and ispace EU were awarded two of the four contracts announced by NASA in December 2020.
ispace’s HAKUTO-R missions are currently planned for launch as early as November 2022 and 2024.
The Draper SERIES-2 lander is designed by the U.S. subsidiary of ispace, will be manufactured by Systima Technologies, and will have payload integration and testing performed by General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems.
Rashid 1 is a 10-kilogram rover that will be carried by the Hakuto-R lander developed by Japanese firm ispace and launched later 2022 on a Falcon 9 rocket.
The iSpace HAKUTO-R lander delivered more than 800 W on the first of several landers using Sierra Space technology.
ispace planned to launch Mission 1 (M1) of the HAKUTO-R program as early as November 2022 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
ispace signed a loan agreement totaling approximately $37,000,000 with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., MUFG Bank, Ltd., The Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd., and The Shizuoka Bank, Ltd.
ispace plans Mission 2 with full payload capacity and scheduled to launch in 2024.
In December 2020, NASA awarded contracts to four companies to transfer lunar regolith that those companies propose to acquire on future lander missions.
ispace received a NASA contract awarded in 2020 to collect regolith with its lander during its first mission.
ispace EUROPE S.A., a subsidiary of ispace, will use its rover to collect regolith during the company’s second mission currently planned for 2024.
ispace’s SERIES-1 lander is currently planned to launch as early as November 2022 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
ispace’s SERIES-2 (S2) lander is designed, manufactured, and will be launched from the United States.
ispace plans to launch Mission 1 as early as November 2022 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Yokogawa Electric Corporation joined the HAKUTO-R partnership program as a supporting company in June 2022.
ispace is developing landers and rovers for Mission 2 and Mission 3 as part of its plan to establish high-frequency, low-cost commercial transportation services to the Moon.
ispace’s first mission as part of its HAKUTO‑R lunar exploration program is planned for 2022-10-01.
Yuji Inoue will continue to serve as a standing Audit & Supervisory Board Member of ispace as of 2022-07-01.