Hakuto-R M1 Mission

Mission Control provided an artificial intelligence–integrated flight computer to ispace Mission 1 to classify types of geological features as a rover drives around the lunar surface.

HAKUTO-R is a multinational commercial lunar exploration program operated by ispace that includes Mission 1, a soft lunar landing planned to launch in 2022, and Mission 2, a lunar landing and rover deployment planned to launch in 2023.

HAKUTO-R includes ispace’s Mission 1, a planned soft lunar landing scheduled to launch in 2022.

Three Canadian companies will fly instruments or collect data on ispace’s Mission 1 lander with support from Canadian Space Agency awards announced 2021-05-26.

NGC Aerospace Ltd. and ispace signed a Memorandum of Understanding under which ispace will utilize a camera to acquire lunar imagery data for demonstration of NGC’s crater-based autonomous navigation system during ispace’s Mission 1.

ispace’s Series B round provided sufficient funding for Mission 1, which is scheduled to launch in 2022.

ispace’s Series 1 lander for Mission 1 completed key tests and was undergoing final assembly at an ArianeGroup facility in Germany as of August 2021.

ispace plans to use the newly secured loans as backup funds to build the lander flight model for Mission 1, which is scheduled to launch in 2022.

ispace’s first lunar mission was planned for 2022 and its second mission was planned for 2023 as of August 2021.

HAKUTO-R is a lunar exploration program consisting of ispace Mission 1, a soft lunar landing planned for 2022, and Mission 2, a lunar landing with rover deployment planned for 2024.

ispace selected the Atlas Crater at 47.5°N, 44.4°E on the southeastern outer edge of Mare Frigoris as Mission 1’s primary landing site.

Mission 1 is scheduled to launch on 2022-11-28 at 3:46 a.m. U.S. Eastern Standard Time from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, U.S.

ispace plans to utilize the MSI lunar insurance policy for its first mission, Mission 1, planned to launch as early as November 2022.

ispace plans to launch Mission 1 as early as November 2022 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

NGC Aerospace Ltd. will use imagery from ispace Mission 1 to prepare a future mission in which the planetary navigation system will guide and support the safe landing of a lunar vehicle in a precise location.

ispace Mission 1 launched on 2022-12-11 at 2:38 a.m. ET on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket bound for the Moon.

ispace’s Mission 1 interim success provided feedback used in full-scale development for Mission 2 and Mission 3.

ispace will apply data and know-how acquired during Mission 1 and the landing sequence to improve technological maturity for Mission 2 in 2024 and Mission 3 in 2025.

ispace will incorporate the Mission 1 analysis into software design and will upgrade and expand the scope of preparatory landing-sequence simulations for Mission 2 and Mission 3.

Mission 1 was a fully privately funded mission by ispace that launched a lunar lander in December 2022.