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 launched a new business line called Blueprint Moon to collect lunar data and offer data products to government, academic, and commercial customers.
The funding raised by ispace is being used to build a small commercial lunar lander that aims to provide a high-frequency, low-cost delivery service to the Moon.
On 2020-08-20, Tokyo-based ispace closed a $28,000,000 Series B funding round.
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 raised a $95,000,000 Series A round in late 2017.
ispace completed the critical design review of the Hakuto-R lander on 2020-07-30.
ispace previously planned to launch its first lander mission in 2021 before rescheduling it to 2022.
Since its 2018 preliminary design review, ispace reduced the Hakuto-R lander's height from 3.5 m to 2.3 m and its width with landing legs deployed from 4.4 m to 2.6 m.
ispace raised nearly $95,000,000 (USD) in Series A funding in 2017.
In 2018 ispace joined a Draper-led team that was selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program.
In 2019 ispace Europe was selected by the European Space Agency to be part of the Science Team for PROSPECT, a program to extract water on the Moon.
Beijing-based iSpace became the first private Chinese firm to launch a satellite into orbit in July 2019.
iSpace’s JD-1 engine passed a secondary start test on 2020-05-27, enabling planned future vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) tests.
iSpace achieved orbit in July 2019.
iSpace plans 100-kilometer vertical takeoff and landing tests of the Hyperbola-2 first stage later in 2020 and a full orbital test flight in the first half of 2021.
Beijing-based iSpace completed a 200-second hot fire test of the 15-ton-thrust JD-1 methalox engine on 2020-05-19.
Launch firms Landspace, iSpace, OneSpace, and Linkspace are developing launch vehicles with the aim of providing low-cost launch services domestically and internationally.
Draper is working with Japanese company ispace on a lander design while the lander itself will be built in the United States.
State-run Expace and private firms including Landspace, iSpace, OneSpace, Linkspace, and Galactic Energy are developing launch vehicles to provide low-cost launch services domestically and internationally.
Draper is partnering with Japanese lander developer iSpace to base a Draper-led CLPS lander on iSpace’s design and build that lander in the United States.