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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An artificial intelligence flight computer will be installed as a payload on ispace’s lunar lander and transported to the Moon during ispace’s Mission 1 planned to launch in 2022 for Mission Control.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) signed a contract with Japan’s ispace, inc. under which ispace will provide lunar payload delivery, operations, and data acquisition services.
ispace and Mission Control Space Services signed a contract under which ispace will provide lunar payload delivery services to Mission Control.
ispace’s Mission 1 lander is being assembled and tested in an ArianeGroup facility in Germany.
The JAXA tiny rover is one of several payloads that ispace is carrying to the moon on its first lunar lander, Mission 1, launching in 2022.
Canadensys Aerospace Corporation is providing a camera capable of taking 360-degree images for ispace’s Mission 1 lander.
ispace’s Mission 1 lander is carrying the Rashid rover developed by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center of the United Arab Emirates.
ispace scheduled Mission 1 to launch in 2022.
JAXA is working with several Japanese companies to fly a tiny rover on a lunar lander mission to be launched in 2022 by ispace.
ispace and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre planned to transport the Rashid lunar rover to the Moon in 2022.
ispace’s Mission 1 lander will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2022.
Three Canadian companies will fly instruments or collect data on ispace’s Mission 1 lander with support from Canadian Space Agency awards announced 2021-05-26.
NGC Aerospace Ltd. and ispace signed a Memorandum of Understanding under which ispace will utilize a camera to acquire lunar imagery data for demonstration of NGC’s crater-based autonomous navigation system during ispace’s Mission 1.
Mission Control Space Services Inc. signed a contract with ispace under which ispace will provide lunar payload delivery services for Mission Control.
Mission Control Space Services will fly a computer on ispace’s Mission 1 lander to test artificial intelligence algorithms intended to support operations of the Rashid rover.
iSpace raised $173,000,000 in a 2020 funding round for its launch business.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) signed a contract with Japan’s ispace, inc. on 14 April 2021 for ispace to provide payload delivery services for the Emirates Lunar Mission.
The sensor tasking feature in iSpace was first developed for the $1,500,000,000 Space Fence surveillance radar site that Lockheed Martin built for the U.S. Air Force on Kwajalein Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
iSpace collects data from hundreds of optical, radar, infrared, and radio sensors operated by governments, commercial companies, and academia to provide space situational awareness.
State-owned spinoffs China Rocket and Expace, and private companies Galactic Energy, iSpace, OneSpace, Deep Blue Aerospace, and Landspace are planning launches 2021.