ispace

commercialFounded 2016

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ispace is developing the Series 3 Lunar Lander through a Small Business Innovation Research grant from Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry.

Mentioned as: ispaceTechnical ProductOct 7, 2025RT by @Cosmic_Penguin: 🚀 Series 3 Structural Thermal Model Has Completed Thermal Vacuum Testing! Check out this video of the Series 3 Lunar Lander Structural Thermal Model being removed from the testing chamber. Our Series 3 Lunar Lander has successfully completed environmental testing, conducted at JAXA's Tsukuba Space facility. The testing ongoing since April was designed to assess the landers ability to withstand the harsh conditions of space. After verifications including thermal vacuum, vibration, and acoustic tests, the lander has achieved a crucial milestone. As part of our development plan, we will use the test data and results for the next phases including the structural model and flight model design. The Series 3 lander, built for commercial payload transportation to the Moon, is steadily progressing towards Mission 4! 🌕 ispace is developing of the Series 3 Lunar Lander through a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry.

Kurita Water Industries has participated further as a corporate partner for ispace.

Mentioned as: ispaceNarrative GeneralOct 7, 2025ispace、高砂熱学工業と栗田工業から総額50億円の資金調達–月面での水資源採掘や水処理で

The payload for lunar water resource exploration technology is being developed by a project team that includes ispace and collaborating institutions.

Mentioned as: ispaceNarrative GeneralOct 7, 2025RT by @Cosmic_Penguin: 📣 Announcement: ispace Selected for Taiwan Space Agency’s Lunar Mission Payloads The TASA scientific equipment is now confirmed as the second payload on ispace’s Mission 4! The Series 3 lunar lander, currently under development by ispace utilizing a Small Business Innovation (SBIR) grant from Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, is also scheduled to carry a payload selected under the Space Strategy Fund's first-phase open call theme: “Development and Demonstration of Lunar Water Resource Exploration Technology (Sensing Technology).” This payload is being developed by a project team that includes ispace and collaborating institutions. Read more here: https://ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=8024 #TASA #ispace #LunarExploration #SpaceDevelopment"

ispace is developing the Series 3 lunar lander utilizing a Small Business Innovation (SBIR) grant from Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Mentioned as: ispaceOrg RelationshipOct 7, 2025RT by @Cosmic_Penguin: 📣 Announcement: ispace Selected for Taiwan Space Agency’s Lunar Mission Payloads The TASA scientific equipment is now confirmed as the second payload on ispace’s Mission 4! The Series 3 lunar lander, currently under development by ispace utilizing a Small Business Innovation (SBIR) grant from Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, is also scheduled to carry a payload selected under the Space Strategy Fund's first-phase open call theme: “Development and Demonstration of Lunar Water Resource Exploration Technology (Sensing Technology).” This payload is being developed by a project team that includes ispace and collaborating institutions. Read more here: https://ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=8024 #TASA #ispace #LunarExploration #SpaceDevelopment"

The TASA scientific equipment is confirmed as the second payload on ispace’s Mission 4.

ispace plans to sell 19.2 million shares in a public offering to source funds.

Mentioned as: ispaceNarrative PlanOct 7, 2025ispace is Raising Money to Cover Growing Losses

On October 6, 2025, ispace decided to issue new shares through a third-party allocation to Takasago Thermal Engineering and Kurita Water Industries.

Mentioned as: ispaceNarrative FinancialOct 7, 202510/7宇宙ニュース・ispace、高砂熱学工業・栗田工業を割当先とした第三者割当増資を実施ほか3件

Kurita Water Industries has been involved as a support company in ispace's private lunar exploration program HAKUTO-R Mission 2.

Mentioned as: ispaceTechnical ProductOct 7, 2025ispace、高砂熱学工業と栗田工業から総額50億円の資金調達–月面での水資源採掘や水処理で

Takasago Thermal Engineering has participated as a corporate partner of ispace since 2019.

Mentioned as: ispaceTechnical ProductOct 7, 2025ispace、高砂熱学工業と栗田工業から総額50億円の資金調達–月面での水資源採掘や水処理で

ispace has allotted shares to individual shareholders, with major portions going to significant Japanese institutions.

Mentioned as: ispaceNarrative GeneralOct 7, 2025ispace is Raising Money to Cover Growing Losses

ispace plans to improve technology and quality by reflecting knowledge gained from past missions in the design of missions 3 and 4 scheduled for launch in 2027 and 2028.

Mentioned as: ispaceOrg RelationshipOct 7, 2025ispace、高砂熱学工業と栗田工業から総額50億円の資金調達–月面での水資源採掘や水処理で

ispace plans to issue as many as 49 million new shares of common stock to raise ¥18.3 billion ($121.9 million) for the development and launch of its next two missions to the Moon.

Mentioned as: ispaceOrg RelationshipOct 7, 2025ispace is Raising Money to Cover Growing Losses

ispace aims to use the funds from the stock sale to complete hardware improvements for its Missions 3 and 4, expected to launch in 2027 and 2028 respectively.

Mentioned as: ispaceOrg RelationshipOct 7, 2025ispace is Raising Money to Cover Growing Losses

Takasago Thermal Engineering participated as a corporate partner in ispace's lunar exploration program 'HAKUTO-R' in December 2019.

Mentioned as: ispaceTechnical ProductOct 7, 202510/7宇宙ニュース・ispace、高砂熱学工業・栗田工業を割当先とした第三者割当増資を実施ほか3件

ispace announced a third-party allotment capital increase with Kurita Water Industries and Takasago Thermal Engineering on October 6.

Mentioned as: ispaceTechnical ProductOct 7, 2025ispace、高砂熱学工業と栗田工業から総額50億円の資金調達–月面での水資源採掘や水処理で

Magna Petra Corp. aims to establish a sustainable supply chain for helium-3, including sample return functionality through its collaboration with ispace.

Mentioned as: ispaceNarrative PlanOct 6, 202510/6宇宙ニュース・ispace欧州法人、約32億円で米企業と月面への輸送契約を締結ほか3件

The Payload Service Agreement is the largest contract ever between ispace and a private company.

Mentioned as: ispaceNarrative GeneralOct 6, 2025RT by @Cosmic_Penguin: 📣 Announcement: ispace and Magna Petra Corp. sign Payload Service Agreement to deliver NASA’s MSOLO instrument to the Moon Under the agreement, ispace-EUROPE will integrate a 🚀NASA-developed Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSOLO) instrument into its upcoming Mission 3 lunar micro-rover platform as part of Magna Petra’s Helium Availability of Lunar Origin (HALO) reconnaissance mission. The ispace-EUROPE micro-rover platform is being designed and manufactured in Luxembourg. 🌕 🌙MSOLO is a flight-proven, compact mass spectrometer originally developed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to measure volatiles, including rare isotopes such as helium-3, thought to be trapped in the Moon’s regolith. At ispace, our mission has always been to enable new entrepreneurs to conduct business on the Moon and to help drive the development of the cislunar economy,” said Julien Lamamy, CEO of ispace-EUROPE. “We are thrilled to be partnered with Magna Petra to fly the MSOLO payload, developed by NASA on our Mission 3 rover,” said Elizabeth Kryst, CEO of ispace-U.S. 📎 This payload services agreement is the largest contract ever between ispace and a private company! Read more about the deal here: https://ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=7993 #ispace #magnapetra #NeverQuitTheLunarQuest

Under the agreement, ispace-EUROPE will integrate NASA's Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSOLO) instrument into its upcoming Mission 3 lunar micro-rover platform.

Mentioned as: ispace-EUROPETechnical ProductOct 6, 2025RT by @Cosmic_Penguin: 📣 Announcement: ispace and Magna Petra Corp. sign Payload Service Agreement to deliver NASA’s MSOLO instrument to the Moon Under the agreement, ispace-EUROPE will integrate a 🚀NASA-developed Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSOLO) instrument into its upcoming Mission 3 lunar micro-rover platform as part of Magna Petra’s Helium Availability of Lunar Origin (HALO) reconnaissance mission. The ispace-EUROPE micro-rover platform is being designed and manufactured in Luxembourg. 🌕 🌙MSOLO is a flight-proven, compact mass spectrometer originally developed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to measure volatiles, including rare isotopes such as helium-3, thought to be trapped in the Moon’s regolith. At ispace, our mission has always been to enable new entrepreneurs to conduct business on the Moon and to help drive the development of the cislunar economy,” said Julien Lamamy, CEO of ispace-EUROPE. “We are thrilled to be partnered with Magna Petra to fly the MSOLO payload, developed by NASA on our Mission 3 rover,” said Elizabeth Kryst, CEO of ispace-U.S. 📎 This payload services agreement is the largest contract ever between ispace and a private company! Read more about the deal here: https://ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=7993 #ispace #magnapetra #NeverQuitTheLunarQuest

The total contract amount between ispace and Magna Petra Corp. is $22 million.

Mentioned as: ispaceNarrative FinancialOct 6, 202510/6宇宙ニュース・ispace欧州法人、約32億円で米企業と月面への輸送契約を締結ほか3件

The HALO mission includes deploying NASA's MSOLO mass spectrometer on a small lunar lander during ispace's third mission.

Mentioned as: ispaceNarrative GeneralOct 6, 202510/6宇宙ニュース・ispace欧州法人、約32億円で米企業と月面への輸送契約を締結ほか3件

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