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 Europe S.A. (ispace EU) was awarded a contract to collect lunar regolith using ispace’s rover during Mission 2 (M2) planned in 2023.
ispace has raised a cumulative total investment of approximately $125,000,000 (USD).
ispace, inc. (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan) was awarded a contract to collect lunar regolith with its lander during Mission 1 (M1) planned in 2022.
ispace Europe plans a lunar lander mission to the lunar south pole in 2023 and ispace Japan plans a lunar lander mission to Lacus Somniorum in 2022.
ispace Japan and ispace Europe each received $5,000 awards for separate lunar lander missions.
iSpace is developing the methalox Hyperbola-2 with first-stage reusability and performed wind tunnel tests of a test first-stage article 2020-11.
ispace chose the Denver area for its U.S. office over locations in California, Florida, Texas, and Washington.
ispace opened a U.S. office in Denver that it will use to design lunar landers.
ispace raised $28,000,000 in a Series B funding round in August, bringing its total funding to date to $125,000,000.
ispace is working on two commercial landers called Mission 1 and Mission 2 scheduled for launch in 2022 and 2023.
ispace’s lander design for Mission 1 will be completed in 2020 and will move into assembly, integration, and testing (AIT) in early 2021.
ispace worked with SelectUSA, a program in the U.S. Department of Commerce, when selecting Colorado for its U.S. workplace.
ispace Europe 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.
ispace has raised approximately $125,000,000 (USD) in cumulative investment.
ispace plans to partner with NASA, including through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, to further its lunar exploration objectives.
Landspace’s planned Zhuque-2 methalox launcher and Galactic Energy’s Pallas-1 are planned to be more capable than iSpace’s Hyperbola-2.
iSpace achieved the first Chinese private orbital success with its Hyperbola-1 launch in July 2019.
iSpace is developing methalox rockets capable of landing using variable-thrust engines and plans hop tests in 2021 followed by a first launch of its Hyperbola-2 rocket.
iSpace is preparing to launch its second Hyperbola-1 solid launcher in early 2021.
iSpace became the first Chinese private firm to place a satellite in orbit in July 2019 using the Hyperbola-1 rocket.