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 Europe employs over 20 staff and will celebrate its fifth anniversary in 2022.
ispace plans to complete assembly and integration of customer payloads for the M1 lander by Spring 2022 and then begin final testing before shipping the lander to the United States for launch.
The lander for ispace’s first lunar mission is planned to launch from the United States on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
ispace’s Series 2 lander’s 2,000-kilogram carrying capacity to lunar orbit could allow a single mission to deploy more than one of the eight 400-kilogram Harmony satellites Plus Ultra plans to send to the moon.
ispace aims to perform a privately-led soft landing on the moon with its robotic Series 1 lander launching on a SpaceX Falcon 9 later 2022.
ispace had raised $200,000,000 as of late October, including an investment from Airbus Ventures.
Plus Ultra and ispace signed a collaboration agreement on 2022-01-20 that includes transport and deployment of Plus Ultra’s Harmony minisatellites as soon as 2024.
ispace, inc. has over 160 staff and offices in Japan, Europe, and the United States.
ispace, inc. builds small commercial lunar landers aiming to provide a high-frequency, low-cost delivery service to the Moon.
ispace Europe was selected by the European Space Agency to be part of the Science Team for the PROSPECT program to seek extraction of water on the Moon.
The lander for ispace, inc.'s first planned lunar mission 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.
Plus Ultra Space Outposts and ispace Europe signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on joint lunar missions.
ispace, inc.'s first lunar mission was planned for 2022.
iSpace is developing a methane-liquid oxygen rocket named Hyperbola-2 and plans to conduct hop tests of the first stage during 2022.
Private firms iSpace and Deep Blue Aerospace are planning hop tests as part of development of reusable first stages for their Hyperbola-2 and Nebula-1 rockets, respectively.
Private firm iSpace launched two Hyperbola-1 solid rockets in 2021 and both launches suffered failures with loss of payloads.
The vast majority of China’s 2021 orbital launches were conducted using Long March rockets, with additional launches by commercial firms Expace, iSpace, and Galactic Energy.
ArianeGroup will support ispace Europe through mission assurance activities and leverage its experience in qualifying space transportation systems.
ArianeGroup is supplying key propulsion components for ispace’s Series 1 lunar lander, which is planned for launch on its first mission in the second half of 2022.
ispace Europe was selected by the European Space Agency to be part of the Science Team for PROSPECT, a program that seeks to extract water on the Moon.