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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The agreement outlines intentions to finalize insurance terms in the months leading up to ispace’s Mission 1 (M1), which is slated to fly on a SpaceX Falcon 9 no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2022.
HAKUTO-R is a lunar exploration program consisting of ispace Mission 1, a soft lunar landing planned for 2022, and Mission 2, a lunar landing with rover deployment planned for 2024.
ispace’s Moon Valley 2040 vision projects a lunar population of 1,000 people and 10,000 visitors per year by 2040.
ispace planned to ship the HAKUTO-R M1 lander to Florida by early Autumn 2022 for launch preparations.
ispace planned to ship the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lander to Florida by early Autumn 2022 for launch preparations.
ispace, inc. has over 170 staff and offices in Japan, Europe, and the United States.
ispace planned for the HAKUTO-R M1 lander to launch from the United States on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance and ispace signed a Memorandum of Understanding to finalize insurance terms during 2022 for coverage of ispace Mission 1.
ispace’s Mission 1 (M1) was planned to launch around 2022-10-01 at the earliest as of 2022-04-01.
ispace’s first lunar mission lander was undergoing final assembly at an ArianeGroup facility in Germany and was planned to launch from the United States on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
ArkEdge Space led a consortium including ispace, Mitsubishi Precision, Kiyohara Optics, KDDI Corporation, and the University of Tokyo to develop a concept of a lunar navigation satellite system, a lunar‑Earth communication system, and a development plan.
Private firms iSpace and Galactic Energy are operating light-lift solid rockets while developing reusable liquid launchers.
Plus Ultra Space Outposts has a deal with ispace to launch additional satellites for its planned lunar constellation as soon as 2024.
iSpace’s Hyperbola-2 launcher is designed to deliver over 1,100 kg of payload into a 500-kilometer Sun-synchronous orbit or 800 kg when the first stage is recovered and reused.
Private firm iSpace launched two Hyperbola-1 solid rockets in 2021 and both launches failed.
iSpace is preparing a fourth Hyperbola-1 solid rocket launch after two consecutive failures and could launch the methane–liquid oxygen Hyperbola-2 in 2022.
Space Pioneer and iSpace are preparing hop tests using the Tiansuo-1 and Hyperbola-2 first stage test vehicles respectively.
Plus Ultra and ispace Europe signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on joint lunar missions.
Since June 2021, members of ispace’s Quality Control and Assembly, Integration & Testing team have been stationed at an ArianeGroup GmbH facility in Lampoldshausen, Germany, collaborating with AGG staff on final assembly of the M1 lander flight model.
ispace’s first lunar mission is planned for 2022 and the lander for that mission is undergoing final assembly at an ArianeGroup facility in Germany.