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ispace is partnered with U.S.-based Draper to offer lunar services to NASA through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
iSpace performed the first successful orbital launch by a Chinese private firm in July 2019.
ispace dropped plans for an initial orbital mission that was to launch in 2020 as a secondary payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
ispace has 100 staff from 13 different countries and operates in Japan (HQ), the United States, and Europe.
ispace partnered with Citizen Watch Co. to provide special processing techniques for titanium components on the lander.
ispace raised nearly $95,000,000 (USD) in Series A funding, which the company described as the largest on record in Japan.
ispace partnered with Suzuki Motor Corp. to provide structural analysis expertise for the Hakuto-R lander.
ispace will make its first mission the Hakuto-R lander scheduled to launch in 2021.
ispace expanded to 100 staff across its three global offices in August 2019.
ispace raised nearly $95,000,000 (USD) in Series A funding.
ispace adjusted its HAKUTO-R mission schedule to prioritize completing a successful soft-landing mission carrying customer payloads by 2021 instead of conducting an orbiter technology demonstration in 2020.
ispace raised nearly $95,000,000 (USD) in Series A funding.
Both ispace lander missions in 2021 and 2023 are scheduled to launch as Falcon 9 secondary payloads.
ispace raised nearly $95,000,000 (USD) in Series A funding.
HAKUTO-R includes ispace Mission 1, a planned soft lunar landing in 2021, and Mission 2, a planned lunar landing and rover deployment in 2023.
ispace has 100 staff from 13 different countries and operates in Japan (headquarters), the United States, and Europe.
iSpace achieved the first successful orbital launch by a Chinese private company the month before the 2019-08-17 Smart Dragon-1 flight.
Landspace, OneSpace, and iSpace have initially pursued and launched solid propellant launchers while Linkspace has concentrated on developing a reusable liquid propellant launcher.
iSpace received over $100,000,000 in Series A funding from Matrix Partners China, CDH Investments, Baidu, and others prior to securing A++ series funding.
ispace Europe was selected by the European Space Agency to be part of the Science Team for PROSPECT.