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 carried out its second suborbital flight from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center two days before OneSpace’s 2018-09-07 launch.
ispace selected SpaceX as the launch provider for its maiden voyages to the Moon scheduled for 2020 and 2021.
Work on the HAKUTO-R missions is funded by the $90,000,000 ispace raised in a Series A funding round last December.
ispace selected SpaceX to launch two HAKUTO-R missions to the moon in 2020 and 2021.
ispace has more than 60 employees, primarily at its Tokyo headquarters where the spacecraft will be built.
ispace contracted with SpaceX to carry its Lunar Lander and Lunar Rovers as secondary payloads on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.
iSpace performed a suborbital launch of its Hyperbola-1Z rocket from Jiuquan on 2018-09-05 at 01:00 a.m. Eastern (05:00 UTC).
iSpace was established in 2016 and plans its first orbital Hyperbola-1 launch in the first half of 2019.
iSpace was founded in 2016 and received financing worth 600 million yuan following a Series A funding round led by Matrix Partners China.
ispace secured $92,700,000 in Series A funding in December 2017.
ispace raised $1,800,000 from Tohoku University Venture Partners Co., Ltd (THVP) on 2018-02-16.
The total Series A funding for ispace now exceeds $94,500,000 after the additional THVP investment.
ispace plans to operate in addition to its Tokyo headquarters from offices in Luxembourg and the United States.
ispace raised $90,200,000 in Series A funding on 2017-12-13.