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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Under the MOU, ispace Europe intends to provide over 15 kg of lander payload capacity or 5 kg of rover capacity to ESA on its lunar lander for missions from 2024 onwards.
ispace Europe and ArianeGroup sought a decision from the European Space Agency by Summer 2022 regarding their candidacy to transport ESA payloads to the Moon.
ispace Europe and ArianeGroup were selected by the European Space Agency to participate in a pilot phase to establish commercial partnerships in Europe for lunar transportation and exploration.
Josef Aschbacher, Director General of the European Space Agency, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ispace Europe and ArianeGroup on 2021-11-24.
iSpace was the first Chinese private rocket firm to reach orbit with a successful launch in July 2019.
iSpace is developing the Hyperbola-2 with a reusable first stage and had planned hop tests that had apparently not yet taken place.
Hop tests for iSpace’s Hyperbola-2 expected 2021 have not yet taken place.
Beijing-based private firm iSpace presented a conceptual spaceplane at CCAF that would launch on a future Hyperbola-3 methane-LOX launch vehicle and could offer suborbital and orbital tourist flights.
iSpace’s Hyperbola-2 features a reusable first stage and could launch in 2022.
iSpace is developing methane-liquid oxygen powered launchers named Hyperbola-2 and Hyperbola-3.
Beijing-based iSpace signed a cooperation framework agreement with Wenchang International Aerospace City on 2021-11-08 related to joint planning of major commercial projects.
Expace and iSpace conducted four commercial launches in 2021, two each, using Hyperbola-1 solid rockets.
ispace EU 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.
Airbus Defense & Space, Air Liquide, and ispace Europe announced the joint creation of EURO2MOON in Dubai on 26 October 2021.
ispace's first lunar mission lander is planned to launch from the United States on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
ispace has launched a lunar data business concept to support companies with their entry into the lunar market.
ispace's first lunar mission was planned for 2022 as of October 2021.
Airbus Ventures invested in ispace on 2021-10-25.
ispace plans to apply funds from its Series C investment round toward its second lunar mission planned to launch in 2023.
ispace has raised a total funding amount of JPY 21.8 billion (approximately $200,000,000) since seed investment.