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ispace has raised nearly $200,000,000 in several private funding rounds.
ispace plans to offer about 24.7 million shares out of 78.6 million issued in the initial public offering.
ispace won approval on 2023-03-08 to list shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market.
ispace raised $46,000,000 in a Series C funding round in August 2021.
ispace launched its first lunar lander in December 2022.
A press conference was hosted in Tokyo on 2023-02-28 where Takeshi Hakamada, Founder and CEO of ispace, and Ryo Ujiie, CTO of ispace, participated along with other executives.
ispace, inc. is developing Mission 2, planned for 2024, and Mission 3, planned for 2025.
ispace is developing a Mission 2 lander scheduled for launch in 2024 that will carry a set of customer payloads and a micro rover developed by ispace.
ispace released an interim success report on 2023-02-28 about HAKUTO-R Mission 1.
ispace’s flight team expects to complete all deep space orbital maneuvers before Lunar Orbital Insertion around mid-March 2023.
ispace’s micro rover on Mission 2 will collect a regolith sample that will be transferred to NASA under a 2020 contract awarded to ispace’s European subsidiary.
ispace’s Mission 1 interim success provided feedback used in full-scale development for Mission 2 and Mission 3.
ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 spacecraft launched on a Falcon 9 on 2022-12-11.
Expace, Landspace, iSpace, Galactic Energy, Space Pioneer, Deep Blue Aerospace, Orienspace, and Rocket Pi are all seeking to reach orbit 2023 or next.
Subsidiaries of CASC, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, commercial launch company iSpace, and Deep Blue Aerospace have signed contracts to establish a presence in Wenchang International Aerospace City.
iSpace had achieved orbit with Hyperbola-1 in 2019 and subsequently experienced three consecutive launch failures before 2023.
iSpace planned vertical takeoff, vertical landing tests in 2023 for its reusable methalox Hyperbola-2 rocket.
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight cubesat launched 2022-12-09 as a secondary payload on a Falcon 9 launch of a commercial lunar lander by Japanese company ispace.
The Falcon 9 booster used for the Amazonas Nexus launch previously launched the SES-22 broadcast satellite, a lunar lander for ispace, and three Starlink broadband missions.
The first stage booster supporting the Hispasat Amazonas Nexus mission previously launched ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1.