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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HAKUTO-R is a multinational commercial lunar exploration program operated by ispace that includes Mission 1 and Mission 2.
ispace is a lunar exploration company founded in 2010 with over 100 staff and offices in Japan, Europe, and the United States.
The cumulative total funding raised by ispace to date is approximately $129,600,000 (USD) as of 2020-12-29.
Beijing-based Landspace and iSpace are developing methalox rockets capable of landing using variable-thrust engines.
iSpace plans hop tests in 2021 followed by a first launch of its Hyperbola-2 rocket.
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is developing a launch complex to facilitate launches of liquid methane-liquid oxygen rockets being developed by Landspace and iSpace.
Chinese commercial launch providers Expace, Landspace, and iSpace previously secured funding rounds of up to $175 million, $175 million, and $173,000,000 respectively.
iSpace plans first-stage hop tests for a reusable launcher in 2021.
ispace opened a Mission Control Center for its HAKUTO-R commercial lunar exploration program in Nihonbashi, Tokyo on 2020-12-09.
HAKUTO-R includes ispace’s Mission 2, a planned lunar landing and deployment of a rover scheduled to launch in 2023.
ispace raised approximately $125,000,000 (USD) in cumulative investment to build a lunar lander and support its business activities.
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.
ispace is part of a team led by Draper that was selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program.
ispace has raised a cumulative total investment of approximately $125,000,000 (USD).
ispace is a lunar exploration company founded in 2010 with over 100 staff and offices in Japan, Europe, and the United States.
ispace is part of a team led by Draper that was selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.
ispace is a lunar exploration company founded in 2010 with over 100 staff and offices in Japan, Europe, and the United States.
HAKUTO-R includes ispace’s Mission 1, a planned soft lunar landing scheduled to launch in 2022.
ispace is part of a team led by Draper that was selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.
NASA awarded contracts to ispace, inc. and ispace Europe S.A. to acquire regolith from the lunar surface.