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 secured $173,000,000 in Series B funding two weeks before Landspace raised $175,000,000.
ispace selected SpaceX in 2018 to launch its first two lunar missions, which are now both lander missions scheduled to launch in 2022 and 2023.
iSpace planned a full orbital flight of Hyperbola-2 for the end of 2021.
iSpace is developing the Hyperbola-2, a 28-meter-tall, 3.35-meter-diameter liquid oxygen–methane launcher with a reusable first stage capable of vertical landing.
iSpace is developing larger launchers including Hyperbola-3, which features additional first stages used as side boosters.
iSpace was established in 2016 and is planning further launches of its solid Hyperbola-1 rocket.
iSpace raised $173,000,000 in a Series B funding round to support development of a new series of launch vehicles and reusable methalox engines.
iSpace previously raised over $100,000,000 in Series A funding with participation from Matrix Partners China, CDH Investments, and Baidu.
Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology Ltd. (iSpace) became the first nominally private Chinese company to launch a satellite into orbit in July 2019.
ispace Europe was selected by the European Space Agency to be part of the PROSPECT Science Team for a program that seeks to extract water on the Moon.
ispace raised approximately $28,000,000 in a Series B investment round on 2020-08-20.
ispace’s cumulative total investment of approximately $125,000,000 includes approximately $95,000,000 raised in its Series A round and earlier seed investment.
Incubate Fund led ispace’s $28,000,000 Series B funding round.
ispace plans to apply Series B funds toward development of its commercial lunar lander for a first mission planned to launch in 2022 and a second mission planned to launch in 2023.
The $28,000,000 Series B round provides ispace enough funding to complete development of its first Hakuto-R lander.
HAKUTO-R is a multinational commercial lunar exploration program operated by ispace that includes Mission 1, a soft lunar landing planned to launch in 2022, and Mission 2, a lunar landing and rover deployment planned to launch in 2023.
ispace is a lunar exploration company founded in 2010 with over 100 staff and offices in Japan, Europe, and the United States.
ispace launched a lunar data business concept labeled Blueprint Moon as a planned data-centric platform to support customers with lunar market entry.
ispace has raised a total of $125 million, including a Series A round in December 2017 valued at $95,000,000.
ispace’s cumulative total investment reached approximately $125,000,000 as of 2020-08-20.