Japan Airlines (JAL) is primarily an airline company, but it has been making strategic investments and forming business alliances to enter the space industry. JAL supports space development by investing in lunar exploration companies like ispace and collaborating on projects like lunar lander development. They also participate in feasibility studies for sustainable space environment utilization in low Earth orbit with partners like JAXA, Blue Origin and Sierra Space. JAL aims to leverage its expertise in aviation to explore opportunities in space travel and contribute to the development of Japan's space industry.
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Japan Airlines seeks to enter the space industry by creating a new business for space travel.
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.
JALEC began providing a 140-square-meter working space within the Japan Airlines Engine Maintenance Center for the development of HAKUTO-R landers beginning 2018-10-01.