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Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) signed a contract with Japan’s ispace, inc. on 14 April 2021 for ispace to provide payload delivery services for the Emirates Lunar Mission.
State-owned spinoffs China Rocket and Expace, and private companies Galactic Energy, iSpace, OneSpace, Deep Blue Aerospace, and Landspace are planning launches 2021.
The sensor tasking feature in iSpace was first developed for the $1,500,000,000 Space Fence surveillance radar site that Lockheed Martin built for the U.S. Air Force on Kwajalein Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
iSpace collects data from hundreds of optical, radar, infrared, and radio sensors operated by governments, commercial companies, and academia to provide space situational awareness.
Landspace and iSpace are developing the first Chinese methalox rockets with the Landspace Zhuque-2 and iSpace Hyperbola-2 expected to debut in 2021 and 2022 respectively.
iSpace plans to strengthen management and technical capabilities, enhance quality awareness, and improve risk identification following the Hyperbola-1 failure.
iSpace completed fault location diagnosis, fault simulation and prediction, test verification and assessment and improvement measures after 28 days of investigation and analysis following the Hyperbola-1 failure.
iSpace raised $173,000,000 in Series B funding in 2020.
Private Chinese launch companies Galactic Energy, iSpace, OneSpace, Deep Blue Aerospace, and Landspace are planning launches 2021.
In January 2021 the commercial company iSpace failed to reach orbit with a second launch of its Hyperbola-1 solid rocket.
iSpace became the first nominally private Chinese launch company to achieve orbit with its first Hyperbola-1 rocket 18 months before the failed launch.
iSpace raised $173,000,000 in Series B funding for its Hyperbola rocket series.
iSpace launched a Hyperbola-1 rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center that ended in apparent failure shortly after liftoff.
iSpace is developing a test stage of its Hyperbola-2 methalox launcher for successive hop tests to altitudes of meters, one kilometer, and 100 km in 2021.
iSpace is developing Hyperbola-2, a 28-meter-tall, 3.35-meter-diameter liquid oxygen–methane launcher.
iSpace plans to conduct hop tests for Hyperbola-2’s reusable first stage in 2021, starting at meter-level hops and progressing to one-kilometer and 100-kilometer vertical launch and landing tests.
iSpace raised $173,000,000 in a series B funding round last year to back development of a new series of launch vehicles and reusable methalox engines.
Beijing-based iSpace plans to carry out hop tests with a test version of a first stage of its Hyperbola-2 methalox rocket during 2021.
ispace is part of a team led by Draper that was selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program.
ispace’s cumulative funding includes approximately $94,500,000 (USD) from its Series A round.