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Draper is working with Japanese company ispace on a lander design while the lander itself will be built in the United States.
State-run Expace and private firms including Landspace, iSpace, OneSpace, Linkspace, and Galactic Energy are developing launch vehicles to provide low-cost launch services domestically and internationally.
Draper is partnering with Japanese lander developer iSpace to base a Draper-led CLPS lander on iSpace’s design and build that lander in the United States.
iSpace plans further Hyperbola-1 light-lift solid rocket launches in 2020 after becoming the first private Chinese launch company to place a satellite in orbit in July 2019.
ispace raised nearly $95,000,000 (USD) in Series A funding.
Takasago aims to utilize ispace’s lunar lander to send an experimental water-splitting payload to the Moon on HAKUTO-R Mission 2 in 2023.
iSpace achieved orbit with a launch in July 2019.
iSpace is aiming to test its methalox rocket Hyperbola-2 in 2021.
Beijing-based iSpace became the first Chinese private company to reach orbit in July 2019 and may follow up with further Hyperbola-1 launches.
ispace, a Tokyo-based lunar exploration company founded in 2010, is building robotic landers and rovers to perform a variety of lunar missions for customers.
Work on M1 and M2 and their planned launches on SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets is funded from $95,000,000 ispace raised in late 2017.
ispace is partnered with a Draper-led team that is one of nine companies holding Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contracts.
ispace plans to start assembly of the Hakuto-R flight model in the year following 2019-10-23.
The Draper-led team offers a lander based on ispace’s design that is assembled in the United States to comply with NASA domestic build requirements.
Mission 2 (M2) is scheduled to launch in 2023 to land on the moon and will carry additional payloads including a small rover that ispace is developing.
ispace plans to upgrade its rover to include standardized interfaces for payloads and improved power and communications to meet business requirements.
If the Google Lunar X Prize had not been canceled, ispace planned to launch SORATO in 2018 and SORATO would have needed to travel at least 500 m on the lunar surface and transmit visual data back to Earth to claim the prize.
ispace raised record funding to build a lunar lander intended to carry rovers to the Moon as part of the company’s private lunar missions.
ispace aims to deploy rovers on the lunar surface by 2023 based on the original design of SORATO.
The National Air and Space Museum received SORATO, a lunar rover built by ispace’s Team HAKUTO, on 2019-10-23.