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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ispace is part of a team led by Draper that was selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.
A Blue Origin-led national team that includes Draper, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman received a $579,000,000 NASA contract to design vehicles to land humans on the moon.
Draper provides descent guidance and avionics to the Blue Origin-led HLS National Team.
The Blue Origin-led team includes Northrop Grumman developing the transfer element that moves the lander in lunar orbit and Draper providing the guidance and avionics.
ispace is part of a team led by Draper that was selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program.
In 2018 ispace joined a Draper-led team that was selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program.
Draper is working with Japanese company ispace on a lander design while the lander itself will be built in the United States.
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.
The Day 3 issue of the Show Daily was published 2019-10-23 and features a cover story on Blue Origin joining forces with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Draper to compete for NASA’s lunar lander contract.
ispace is partnered with a Draper-led team that is one of nine companies holding Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contracts.
The Draper-led team offers a lander based on ispace’s design that is assembled in the United States to comply with NASA domestic build requirements.
On 2019-10-22, Jeff Bezos presented a plan for Blue Origin to work with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Draper on a lunar lander proposal for NASA’s Human Landing Services competition.
ispace is partnered with U.S.-based Draper to offer lunar services to NASA through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Draper expects its matured technology to support autonomous, safe, and routine landings on the moon by 2024.
Draper is partnered with ispace, a Japanese company developing commercial lunar landers.
Peter Kachmar is a rendezvous engineer who still works at Draper supporting guidance work on the Trident missile.
ispace is developing commercial lunar landers and is part of a team led by Draper that won one of nine Commercial Lunar Payload Services agreements from NASA last November.
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.
Team Draper was one of nine parties selected to participate in NASA’s CLPS Program on 2018-11-29.
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.