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Mehak Sarang is Director of Industry Integration at the Open Lunar Foundation and previously worked at ispace-US, a subsidiary of ispace Japan building a lunar lander with Draper for NASA’s CLPS program.
iSpace secured hundreds of millions of Yuan in funding in early 2025.
iSpace was funded by the Sichuan Province Development Fund.
ispace Japan is partnering with SpaceData Inc. to build a system that replicates lunar gravity and communications delays and to build a high-resolution topographical model of the Moon based on data from ispace’s lunar missions.
Israel's SpaceIL and Japan's ispace crashed while attempting lunar landings.
Deep Blue Aerospace completed a B4 funding round of nearly ¥500 million shortly after iSpace raised hundreds of millions of dollars.
Japan's ispace will land its Resilience lander on the Moon in early June 2025.
The first lander mission by ispace crashed in April 2023 due to a software glitch.
ispace adhered to its success criteria during its first Moon mission despite a failed landing.
ispace included a table listing specific actions or criteria to be met for its mission milestones.
The Moon lander duo from ispace Japan and Firefly Aerospace were launched by SpaceX on January 15 as a shared Falcon 9 ride to space.
ispace and Firefly have clearly laid out the milestones and success criteria of their respective missions.
ISRO has publicly known cooperation arrangements with JAXA and Roscosmos but not with ispace Japan.
ispace verified Hakuto-R’s propulsion system by firing the main engine for its first orbital maneuver on January 17, 2026.
ispace Japan’s Hakuto-R lander is carrying multiple commercial payloads and is attempting a follow-up landing after a prior failed landing attempt.
ispace targeted an attempted Hakuto-R touchdown in the lava plains of Mare Frigoris at approximately 60.5°N, 4.6°W after a four-month cruise.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched and deployed two Moon landers on January 15, 2026: Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost and ispace Japan’s Hakuto-R.
ispace cannot directly bid on NASA payloads but has a partnership with Draper for one CLPS mission.
ispace adhered to explicit pre-defined success criteria during its first Moon mission despite a failed landing.
Firefly Aerospace and ispace are competing to win business for sending payloads to the Moon.