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Mission 2 and Mission 3 will contribute to NASA’s Artemis Program and will further improve the maturity of ispace’s technology and business model.
The Draper CLPS mission will use a lander developed by ispace’s U.S. office that is significantly larger than the HAKUTO-R landers.
SpaceX launched ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Lunar Flashlight to a lunar transfer orbit on 2022-12-11 at 2:38 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Canadensys Aerospace Corporation provided an AI-enabled, operational lunar 360-degree imaging system with multiple cameras for ispace Mission 1.
ispace Mission 1 launched on 2022-12-11 at 2:38 a.m. ET on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket bound for the Moon.
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.
The Falcon 9 second stage, after a second burn, deployed the HAKUTO-R M1 spacecraft for Tokyo-based ispace 47 minutes after liftoff.
NGC Aerospace Ltd. will receive lunar imagery from ispace Mission 1 to test a planetary navigation system similar to GPS.
NASA procured a flight for Lunar Flashlight as a secondary payload on Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission and later moved it to the ispace launch when IM-1 slipped to March 2023.
Canadensys Aerospace Corporation’s imaging system will be used to image two rovers as they are deployed from opposite sides of the ispace lander.
ispace has defined 10 milestones for Mission 1 between launch and landing and aims to achieve the success criteria established for each milestone.
ispace updated the launch schedule for its Mission 1 HAKUTO-R lunar lander to no earlier than 2022-12-11 for liftoff from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Galactic Energy’s Pallas-1 and iSpace’s Hyperbola-2 could launch in 2023.
Beijing-based iSpace is developing the methalox Hyperbola-2 and unveiled a first-stage test article at Jiuquan for hop tests.
Agile Space Industries is supplying thrusters for robotic lunar landers being built by Astrobotic Technology and ispace.
ispace has no plan to change the target lunar landing site for HAKUTO-R Mission 1 as of 2022-12-02 (JST).
The 2022-12-01 launch attempt of ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander was postponed to allow SpaceX to perform additional pre-flight checks of the launch vehicle.
ESA provided sole ground station support to ispace via ispace EUROPE in Luxembourg for HAKUTO Mission 1, marking the first time ESA has provided sole ground station support for a commercial space mission.
European Space Agency collaborates with ispace to provide communication services between ispace’s lunar spacecraft and ESA teams on Earth throughout the mission.
ispace will launch HAKUTO Mission 1 using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.