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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King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and ispace signed a strategic partnership to collaborate on lunar exploration technologies.
The KACST–ispace partnership will examine options to transport Saudi payloads to the Moon.
The KACST–ispace partnership includes initiatives aimed at building national skills and capabilities aligned with Saudi Vision 2030.
Six companies have signed up for the Lunar Ledger: ispace, Firefly, Astrolab, JAOPS, Dymon, and SpaceData.
ispace is working with ESA on the development of the MAGPIE lunar rover mission.
ispace maintains a subsidiary in Luxembourg.
ispace opened a new headquarters called Earth Base in Nihonbashi, Tokyo.
ispace relocated its headquarters to Nihonbashi, Hamacho, in February 2021.
ispace established its Mission Control Center in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in December 2020.
ispace grew to approximately 190 members, about 1.7 times its original size, by April 2023.
ispace conducted mission operations for HAKUTO-R Missions 1 and 2 from its Hamacho location for five years while its corporate and front office staff worked from a separate office building in Hamacho.
ispace became a listed company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in April 2023.
During his visit, Feng Fei inspected the new launch pads and commodity systems and visited iSpace’s launch vehicle processing and refurbishment facility near the launch site.
The debut flights of the partially reusable Long March 10B and iSpace’s Hyperbola-3 are scheduled on this year’s launch manifest.
iSpace will improve facilities in Beijing, Shaanxi, Hainan, Sichuan, and Guangdong.
iSpace will accelerate plans for its reusable launch vehicle Hyperbola-3 and expand production and testing capacities for relevant systems using the new funding.
On February 6, iSpace and Hainan International Commercial Aerospace Launch Co Ltd rehearsed transferring the Hyperbola-3 pathfinder to Commercial Launch Pad 2 at the Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site, placing it on its transporter-erector, driving it to the pad, and moving it into the launch position with the transporter-erector swinging away.
iSpace's D++ funding round was led by Tongchuang Weiye and Jingming Capital with eighteen private investors and six provincial or municipal capital funds participating.
On February 12, iSpace concluded its D++ funding round, raising 5.037 billion Yuan (729.6 million United States Dollars as of February 13).
The February rehearsal and piston upgrade followed a December 2025 exercise in which only the transporter-erector was driven from iSpace’s launch preparation facilities and parked just short of the launch pad attachment points.