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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.
iSpace plans hop tests in 2021 followed by a first launch of its Hyperbola-2 rocket.
ispace raised $28,000,000 in a Series B funding round in August, bringing its total funding to date to $125,000,000.
iSpace is developing methalox rockets capable of landing using variable-thrust engines and plans hop tests in 2021 followed by a first launch of its Hyperbola-2 rocket.
iSpace became the first Chinese private firm to place a satellite in orbit in July 2019 using the Hyperbola-1 rocket.
iSpace secured $173,000,000 in Series B funding two weeks before Landspace raised $175,000,000.
iSpace raised $173,000,000 in a Series B funding round to support development of a new series of launch vehicles and reusable methalox engines.
ispace launched a lunar data business concept labeled Blueprint Moon as a planned data-centric platform to support customers with lunar market entry.
Beijing-based iSpace became the first private Chinese firm to launch a satellite into orbit in July 2019.
iSpace achieved orbit in July 2019.
iSpace achieved orbit with a launch in July 2019.
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 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.
iSpace performed the first successful orbital launch by a Chinese private firm in July 2019.
ispace raised nearly $95,000,000 (USD) in Series A funding, which the company described as the largest on record in Japan.
iSpace achieved the first successful orbital launch by a Chinese private company the month before the 2019-08-17 Smart Dragon-1 flight.
iSpace became the first Chinese private firm to achieve orbit with a successful Hyperbola-1 launch from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on 2019-07-25.
If successful, an orbital flight by iSpace’s Hyperbola-1 would be the first Chinese private rocket to achieve orbit, following failures by Landspace in 2018 and OneSpace on 2019-03-27.
ispace announced a new contract on 2019-05-22 under the Luxembourg National Space Programme LuxIMPULSE implemented by the European Space Agency.