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 design, manufacture, and launch the Series 2 lunar lander in the United States.
ispace’s Series 1 lander for Mission 1 completed key tests and was undergoing final assembly at an ArianeGroup facility in Germany as of August 2021.
ispace, inc. has over 150 staff and offices in Japan, Europe, and the United States.
ispace is part of a Draper-led team competing in NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program with ispace serving as a subcontractor and design agent to Draper.
ispace launched a lunar data business concept to support private sector companies with lunar market entry.
ispace US has nearly 30 employees and serves as the central location for development of the Series 2 lander and North American operations.
ispace’s business objective includes building small commercial lunar landers to provide high-frequency, low-cost delivery services to the Moon.
ispace’s Mission 1 lander is scheduled to launch from the United States on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
ispace’s first lunar mission is planned for 2022 and the company’s second lunar mission is planned for 2023.
Work on the new ispace lander is supported by a $46,000,000 Series C funding round announced on 2021-08-04.
The new ispace lander will be entirely designed and built in the United States to make it more feasible to offer the vehicle to U.S. government customers.
ispace is developing the design for a larger lunar lander that will be built in the United States.
ispace has raised $195,500,000 in funding to date.
ispace unveiled the design of the larger lunar lander at the 36th Space Symposium on 2021-08-23.
The lander ispace is building for its first two missions in 2022 and 2023 can carry 30 kg of payload to the lunar surface.
iSpace raised $173,000,000 in 2020.
The Hyperbola-1 solid rocket developed by private firm iSpace accounted for both of China’s two launch failures in 2021.
ispace is part of a Draper-led team selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
With the Series C round, ispace has raised $195,500,000 to date.
ispace raised $46,000,000 in a Series C funding round on 2021-08-04 to support future missions to the moon.