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ispace raised approximately $125,000,000 (USD) in cumulative investment to build a lunar lander and support its business activities.
NASA awarded contracts to ispace, inc. and ispace Europe S.A. to acquire regolith from the lunar surface.
ispace, inc. (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan) was awarded a contract to collect lunar regolith with its lander during Mission 1 (M1) planned in 2022.
ispace has raised a cumulative total investment of approximately $125,000,000 (USD).
ispace Europe S.A. (ispace EU) was awarded a contract to collect lunar regolith using ispace’s rover during Mission 2 (M2) planned in 2023.
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 Japan and ispace Europe each received $5,000 awards for separate lunar lander missions.
ispace Europe plans a lunar lander mission to the lunar south pole in 2023 and ispace Japan plans a lunar lander mission to Lacus Somniorum in 2022.
iSpace is developing the methalox Hyperbola-2 with first-stage reusability and performed wind tunnel tests of a test first-stage article 2020-11.
ispace opened a U.S. office in Denver that it will use to design lunar landers.
ispace is working on two commercial landers called Mission 1 and Mission 2 scheduled for launch in 2022 and 2023.
ispace chose the Denver area for its U.S. office over locations in California, Florida, Texas, and Washington.
ispace raised $28,000,000 in a Series B funding round in August, bringing its total funding to date to $125,000,000.
ispace plans to partner with NASA, including through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, to further its lunar exploration objectives.
ispace’s lander design for Mission 1 will be completed in 2020 and will move into assembly, integration, and testing (AIT) in early 2021.
ispace Europe was selected by the European Space Agency to be part of the Science Team for PROSPECT, a program that seeks to extract water on the Moon.
ispace worked with SelectUSA, a program in the U.S. Department of Commerce, when selecting Colorado for its U.S. workplace.
ispace has raised approximately $125,000,000 (USD) in cumulative investment.
Landspace’s planned Zhuque-2 methalox launcher and Galactic Energy’s Pallas-1 are planned to be more capable than iSpace’s Hyperbola-2.
iSpace achieved the first Chinese private orbital success with its Hyperbola-1 launch in July 2019.