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ispace signed loan agreements totaling $17,900,000 (USD) with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, MUFG Bank, Ltd., Resona Bank, Limited, and Japan Finance Corporation on 2021-06-08 in Tokyo, Japan.
ispace plans to use the newly secured loans to make up-front development investments for a lunar lander to be used in Mission 2, which is scheduled to launch in 2023.
As of 2021-05-31, ispace’s total amount of bank loans reached $20,000,000 (USD) including an existing loan from Japan Finance and Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative.
Canadensys Aerospace Corporation is providing a camera capable of taking 360-degree images for ispace’s Mission 1 lander.
Mission Control Space Services Inc. signed a contract with ispace under which ispace will provide lunar payload delivery services for Mission Control.
ispace’s Mission 1 lander is carrying the Rashid rover developed by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center of the United Arab Emirates.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) signed a contract with Japan’s ispace, inc. under which ispace will provide lunar payload delivery, operations, and data acquisition services.
NGC Aerospace Ltd. and ispace signed a Memorandum of Understanding under which ispace will utilize a camera to acquire lunar imagery data for demonstration of NGC’s crater-based autonomous navigation system during ispace’s Mission 1.
ispace’s Mission 1 lander is being assembled and tested in an ArianeGroup facility in Germany.
ispace and Mission Control Space Services signed a contract under which ispace will provide lunar payload delivery services to Mission Control.
ispace scheduled Mission 1 to launch in 2022.
JAXA is working with several Japanese companies to fly a tiny rover on a lunar lander mission to be launched in 2022 by ispace.
ispace’s Mission 1 lander will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2022.
The JAXA tiny rover is one of several payloads that ispace is carrying to the moon on its first lunar lander, Mission 1, launching in 2022.
ispace will transport a robot provided by JAXA to the Moon on ispace’s lunar lander during ispace’s Mission 1 planned to launch in 2022 as part of the HAKUTO-R commercial lunar exploration program.
An artificial intelligence flight computer will be installed as a payload on ispace’s lunar lander and transported to the Moon during ispace’s Mission 1 planned to launch in 2022 for Mission Control.
Three Canadian companies will fly instruments or collect data on ispace’s Mission 1 lander with support from Canadian Space Agency awards announced 2021-05-26.
ispace and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre planned to transport the Rashid lunar rover to the Moon in 2022.
Mission Control Space Services will fly a computer on ispace’s Mission 1 lander to test artificial intelligence algorithms intended to support operations of the Rashid rover.
iSpace raised $173,000,000 in a 2020 funding round for its launch business.