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 raised nearly $95,000,000 (USD) in Series A funding.
Both ispace lander missions in 2021 and 2023 are scheduled to launch as Falcon 9 secondary payloads.
ispace has 100 staff from 13 different countries and operates in Japan (headquarters), the United States, and Europe.
ispace expanded to 100 staff across its three global offices in August 2019.
ispace partnered with Suzuki Motor Corp. to provide structural analysis expertise for the Hakuto-R lander.
HAKUTO-R includes ispace Mission 1, a planned soft lunar landing in 2021, and Mission 2, a planned lunar landing and rover deployment in 2023.
ispace has 100 staff from 13 different countries and operates in Japan (HQ), the United States, and Europe.
ispace raised nearly $95,000,000 (USD) in Series A funding, which the company described as the largest on record in Japan.
ispace raised nearly $95,000,000 (USD) in Series A funding.
ispace partnered with Citizen Watch Co. to provide special processing techniques for titanium components on the lander.
ispace raised nearly $95,000,000 (USD) in Series A funding.
ispace dropped plans for an initial orbital mission that was to launch in 2020 as a secondary payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
ispace will make its first mission the Hakuto-R lander scheduled to launch in 2021.
iSpace achieved the first successful orbital launch by a Chinese private company the month before the 2019-08-17 Smart Dragon-1 flight.
Landspace, OneSpace, and iSpace have initially pursued and launched solid propellant launchers while Linkspace has concentrated on developing a reusable liquid propellant launcher.
ispace raised nearly $100,000,000 in its Series A funding round.
iSpace became the first Chinese private firm to achieve orbit with a successful Hyperbola-1 launch from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on 2019-07-25.
iSpace received over $100,000,000 in Series A funding from Matrix Partners China, CDH Investments, Baidu, and others prior to securing A++ series funding.
ispace Europe was selected by the European Space Agency to be part of the Science Team for PROSPECT.
ispace is using its Series A funding to support its first two lunar missions planned for 2020 and 2021 that will launch on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.