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ispace postponed the 2022-11-30 launch attempt of its HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander to 2022-12-01 to allow SpaceX to perform additional pre-flight checks of the launch vehicle.
Mission 2 and Mission 3 will further improve the maturity of ispace’s technology and business model.
ispace completed launch preparations including integration of the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander into the SpaceX Falcon 9 fairing on 2022-11-28.
ispace, inc. released an updated launch schedule for its Mission 1 lunar lander on 2022-11-25.
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance began working with ispace in 2019.
ispace expects SpaceX to launch its HAKUTO-R M1 lunar lander on 2022-11-28 at the earliest for a mission to the moon’s surface roughly five months later.
ispace signed a Memorandum of Understanding in April 2022 to utilize MSI’s new lunar insurance plan for risks arising in its lunar business.
ispace selected the Atlas Crater at 47.5°N, 44.4°E on the southeastern outer edge of Mare Frigoris as Mission 1’s primary landing site.
ispace partnered with CITIZEN to produce the HAKUTO-R M1 countdown clock positioned in front of the HAKUTO-R Mission Control Center.
MSI reached an agreement with ispace, inc. to provide a lunar insurance policy that comprehensively covers risks arising from ispace’s Mission 1 from rocket launch to lunar landing.
ispace plans to utilize the MSI lunar insurance policy for its first mission, Mission 1, planned to launch as early as November 2022.
ispace projects that by 2040 the Moon will support a population of 1,000 people with 10,000 visitors every year.
NASA awarded a second contract to ispace EUROPE S.A. for acquiring lunar material on ispace’s second mission scheduled for 2024 as part of the HAKUTO-R program.
ispace EUROPE S.A. will acquire lunar material on Mission 2 scheduled for 2024 as part of the HAKUTO-R program.
ispace planned to launch its first lunar mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida as early as 2022-11-22.
The ispace license allows ispace to complete a NASA contract awarded in December 2020 to acquire lunar regolith from the lunar surface to sell to NASA.
ispace’s lunar lander arrived in Cape Canaveral, Florida and will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 2022-11-22.
ispace will display a full-scale model of its lunar lander at akasaka Sacas Plaza in front of the TBS television studios from 2022-11-03 to 2022-11-06.
ispace previously targeted the HAKUTO-R M1 launch between 2022-11-09 and 15 but postponed the launch to no earlier than 2022-11-22.
In July 2022, NASA awarded Team Draper, which includes ispace subsidiary ispace technologies U.S., inc., $73,000,000 to deliver payloads including two communication relay satellites to lunar orbit and a suite of scientific experiments to the lunar surface.