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 has an agreement with NGK Spark Plug to test solid-state battery technology on its Hakuto-R lunar lander mission scheduled for 2021.
ispace raised $90,200,000 in its Series A funding round and later raised an additional $1,800,000, totaling approximately $94,500,000 based on the February $2,018/JPY exchange rate.
ispace has over 85 staff from 13 different countries and operates in Japan (headquarters), Luxembourg, and the United States.
ispace, inc. raised nearly $95,000,000 in Series A funding.
ispace raised nearly $95,000,000 in Series A funding.
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd. and ispace, inc. will cooperate to develop a lunar insurance service.
ispace raised nearly $95,000,000 in Series A funding.
NGK SPARK PLUG and ispace agreed to transport a trial design of NGK SPARK PLUG’s solid-state battery technology to the Moon in 2021.
In September iSpace advertised 80 kg of payload capacity remaining for a Hyperbola-1 launch that was stated to take place in April from Jiuquan.
iSpace planned to launch three launch vehicles in 2019, with the first Hyperbola-1 orbital-series flight scheduled for the first half of 2019.
Draper’s CLPS team includes ispace, a Japanese startup that raised more than $90,000,000 in 2017 to fund an orbiter planned for 2020 and a lander with a rover planned for 2021.
As part of Team Draper, ispace is eligible to bid for contracts totaling US$2,600,000,000 over 10 years to support NASA lunar activities.
Foreign companies can participate in NASA’s CLPS program by partnering with U.S.-led teams, as demonstrated by Japan’s ispace partnering with Draper.
Ispace raised more than $90,000,000 from Japanese investors in December of the previous year.
ispace raised nearly $100,000,000 in Series A funding to support its first two lunar missions planned for 2020 and 2021.
ispace is a Tokyo-based company developing its own lunar landers and planned in September to launch its first two missions in 2020 and 2021 as secondary payloads on Falcon 9 missions.
ispace has over 85 staff across 13 countries and operates three global offices in Japan, Europe, and the NASA Ames Research Park in the United States.
Japan Airlines (JAL) will provide a facility for the assembly, integration, and testing of ispace’s lunar landers starting from October 2018 through the second lunar mission of the HAKUTO-R Program.
The $94,500,000 raised in ispace’s Series A funding round is the largest Series A on record in Japan and among the largest in the global space industry.
JAL participated in ispace’s Series A funding round in December 2017 that raised $94,500,000.