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 plans to apply funds from its Series C investment round to support development of its Series 2 lunar lander for a third mission currently planned to launch in 2024.
ispace raised additional financing from Airbus Ventures as part of an extension of its Series C investment round in October 2021.
Airbus Ventures Partner Dr. Lewis Pinault will perform as a mentor to ispace to support advancement of ispace’s lunar payload delivery capability.
ispace is part of a team led by Draper that was selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program.
ispace planned to apply Series C funds to support development of its Series 2 lunar lander for a third mission planned for launch in 2024.
ispace planned to apply funds from its Series C investment round toward its second lunar mission planned for launch in 2023.
ispace’s first mission lander is planned to launch from the United States on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
On its first mission, ispace’s lander is planned to deliver payloads for the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and commercial customers.
ispace raised additional financing from Axiom Asia Private Capital as part of an extension of its Series C investment round.
ispace formulated a mid-term vision named "Cislunar Digital Twin 2030" covering the ten-year period from the fiscal year ending March 2022 through the fiscal year ending March 2031.
Funding in 2021 had not reached the levels of the largest 2020 rounds, which included Changguang Satellite ($375,000,000) and launch companies Landspace ($175,000,000) and iSpace ($173,000,000).
ispace Europe was selected by the European Space Agency to be part of the Science Team for PROSPECT, a program to seek extraction of water on the Moon.
ispace has raised cumulative total funding of approximately $195,500,000 as of the time referenced in the document.
ispace’s first 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.
On 25 August 2021 ispace, ispace Europe, Stardust Technologies Inc., University of Technology Sydney, and EXPLOR Space Technologies signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on a lunar mining rover with a multipurpose robotics arm utilizing virtual reality and haptic feedback for in situ resource utilization activities on the Moon.
ispace’s first mission lander will deliver payloads for the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and three companies that received awards under the Canadian Space Agency’s Lunar Exploration Accelerator Program.
ispace is part of a Draper-led team selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
ispace’s first lunar mission was planned for 2022 and its second mission was planned for 2023 as of August 2021.
ispace has raised total cumulative funding of approximately $195,500,000 (JPY 21.3 billion).
ispace plans to use the Series 2 lunar lander for its third lunar mission (Mission 3) and subsequent missions.