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APEX 1.0 is designed to deliver ten times more payload to the lunar surface compared to earlier ispace missions.
ispace-U.S.’s APEX 1.0 lunar lander is designed and built in the U.S.
ispace technologies U.S., inc. (ispace-U.S.) launched a new data relay service enabled by two relay satellites that are expected to be deployed during ispace-U.S.’s Mission 3 scheduled in 2026.
ispace-U.S. plans to progressively increase the APEX series payload capacity to eventually reach a payload capacity of 500 kg to the lunar surface.
ispace will receive approximately U.S. $45,000,000 from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation on 2024-04-30 as working capital for development and operation of Mission 3 and Mission 6.
ispace provided U.S. dollar conversion of the financing amount using an FX rate based on the past one-month average in March 2024.
iSpace’s Hyperbola-3 is a methane-liquid oxygen reusable rocket with a payload capacity of 8,500 kg to low Earth orbit and its first flight is planned for 2025.
The ispace EUROPE team in Luxembourg will build and test the final Micro Rover flight model.
In December 2020, ispace EUROPE was selected by NASA to acquire lunar regolith for purchase by the space agency.
ispace, inc. and ispace-U.S. support the space policies and industries of both countries and provide lunar transportation services to contribute to establishing a long-term human presence on the Moon.
ispace plans to progressively increase the APEX series payload capacity, eventually reaching 500 kg to the lunar surface.
The Blue Canyon-built bus housing ispace-U.S.’s communications payload will serve as the data relay between Earth and the far side of the Moon to enable rapid data transmission from the lander and its payloads.
APEX 1.0 is designed to deliver ten times more payload to the lunar surface compared to earlier ispace missions.
ispace’s APEX 1.0 lunar lander is designed and built in the United States as the company’s next-generation lander.
ispace-U.S. will contribute to the Draper-led Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative to deliver payloads for scientific investigations to the far side of the Moon in 2026.
ispace technologies U.S., inc. contracted Blue Canyon Technologies to design and manufacture two Venus-class microsatellite buses for ispace-U.S.’s Mission 3 scheduled for 2026.
ispace-U.S. and Dr. Alan Stern will partner in several business areas to help develop the lunar economy and increase ispace-U.S.’s footprint in the U.S. market.
ispace offered the shares solely to institutional investors outside of Japan to diversify its investor base and improve liquidity of those shares.
About 7,100,000,000 JPY of the funds will go toward various elements of Mission 3, a lander being developed by ispace U.S. for Draper.
ispace won a grant from the Japanese government worth 12,000,000,000 JPY in October 2023 to support work on Mission 6.