Draper Associates, founded by Tim Draper in 1985, is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies with high potential, including those in the space industry. Their investments include SpaceX and Cognitive Space. They focus on companies with innovative approaches, strong network effects and are revolutionizing the space industry.
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Under the AFRL contract, Ursa Major will build and test a prototype of its Draper engine for hypersonics.
Ursa Major plans to build a dedicated test stand for the Draper engine and to hotfire the engine within 12 months.
Under the Air Force Research Laboratory contract, Ursa Major will build and test a prototype of its Draper engine for hypersonics and will further develop its 200,000-pound-thrust Arroway engine for space launch.
Draper is a member of the Blue Origin-led National Team developing the human lunar lander.
ispace’s U.S. subsidiary is developing a larger Series 2 lander for a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission led by Draper scheduled for 2025.
Draper completed the first milestones of a NASA award to perform the first commercial landing on the far side of the Moon in 2025.
Draper completed a mission architecture and requirements review and a payload interface preliminary design review for its CLPS mission on 2023-04-13.
The Draper-led team won a $73,000,000 NASA CLPS award formally designated CP-12 in July 2022 to land in Schrödinger Basin near the lunar south pole.
There is strong demand for small satellite buses of the size Draper requires from the U.S. Space Force and other military programs.
Mission 3 will use a larger lander developed by ispace’s U.S. subsidiary in partnership with Draper.
Draper won a CLPS task order for the first farside CLPS mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2025.
The Draper CLPS mission will use a lander developed by ispace’s U.S. office that is significantly larger than the HAKUTO-R landers.
The Farside Seismic Suite will fly on a Draper-awarded mission that will land on the moon's Schrödinger Basin in 2025.
In July 2022, NASA awarded Team Draper, which includes ispace subsidiary ispace technologies U.S., inc., $73,000,000 to deliver payloads including two communication relay satellites to lunar orbit and a suite of scientific experiments to the lunar surface.
ispace’s U.S. office is part of a Draper-led team that won a Commercial Lunar Payload Services award in July for a lander mission to the far side of the moon scheduled for launch in 2025.
In July 2022, NASA awarded Team Draper, which includes ispace subsidiary ispace technologies U.S., inc., $73,000,000 to deliver payloads including two communication relay satellites to lunar orbit and a suite of scientific experiments to the lunar surface.
The Draper SERIES-2 lander is designed by the U.S. subsidiary of ispace, will be manufactured by Systima Technologies, and will have payload integration and testing performed by General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems.
Draper received a $73,000,000 CLPS task order to provide the SERIES-2 lander for a mission to the lunar farside.
Draper won a CLPS award for a lunar farside landing mission on 2025-07-21.
Team Draper was awarded $73,000,000 to deliver payloads including two communication relay satellites to lunar orbit and a suite of scientific experiments to the lunar surface under NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) task order CP-12.