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ispace’s first mission as part of its HAKUTO‑R lunar exploration program is planned for 2022-10-01.
Yuji Inoue will continue to serve as a standing Audit & Supervisory Board Member of ispace as of 2022-07-01.
Jumpei Nozaki is CFO of ispace and will continue to serve as Director as of 2022-07-01.
ispace expects the HAKUTO‑R Mission 1 to launch from the United States on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Takeshi Hakamada is Founder & CEO of ispace and will continue to serve as Representative Director as of 2022-07-01.
iSpace plans to conduct Hyperbola-2 hop tests ahead of a potential orbital launch in 2023.
Beijing-based iSpace became the first private Chinese launch company to reach orbit in 2019 with Hyperbola-1.
The fourth Hyperbola-1 launch from iSpace lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 3:09 a.m. Eastern on 2022-05-13.
Chinese state media Xinhua confirmed the iSpace Hyperbola-1 failure four hours after the 2022-05-13 launch.
iSpace secured $173,000,000 in funding in August 2020 to support Hyperbola-2 development.
Beijing-based iSpace became the first Chinese company outside the state-owned traditional space sector to successfully launch a satellite into orbit in July 2019.
iSpace planned vertical takeoff and vertical landing (VTVL) tests for 2021 following testing of methalox engines, software, grid fins, and landing leg deployment.
Beijing-based iSpace is developing the methane-liquid oxygen Hyperbola-2 launcher.
ispace EU created a lunar yard and associated mission simulation facilities to support development of rover navigation technology.
ispace inc. has over 170 staff and maintains offices in Japan, Europe, and the United States.
On 2022-05-02 ispace EU inaugurated a mission control room that will complement ispace’s Mission Control Center in Tokyo, Japan during M1 mission operations.
ispace EU was selected together with ArianeGroup by the European Space Agency to participate in a pilot phase aiming to establish commercial partnerships in Europe for lunar transportation and exploration.
As of May 2022, ispace’s first lunar mission was planned for 2022 with the mission lander undergoing final assembly at an ArianeGroup facility in Germany and slated to launch from the United States on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
ispace EU commemorated its fifth anniversary on 2022-05-02 with a visit by His Royal Highness Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg accompanied by Luxembourg’s Minister of the Economy Franz Fayot.
ispace EU opened in March 2017 under a cooperative agreement with the Government of Luxembourg’s SpaceResources.lu initiative to support commercialization of space resource development.