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iSpace tested a transporter-erector at the Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site ahead of Hyperbola-3’s debut flight in 2026.

NARRATIVE GENERAL12/31/2025Three Reusable Rockets Complete Tests, Assembly Ahead of 2026 Flights

iSpace plans to have the maiden flight of the Hyper Polar-3 rocket in 2025.

NARRATIVE GENERAL12/31/2025Recap of the plan which Chinese LSPs made in the beginning of 2025.

iSpace completed tests of the Hyperbola-3 rocket.

NARRATIVE GENERAL10/20/2025Chinese Space Financing Goes Mainstream

The management change at ispace was announced in Tokyo on 2024-11-01.

NARRATIVE GOVERNANCE11/1/2024ispace Announces Changes of Global Management Structure to Streamline Business Development

ispace raised $90,200,000 in Series A funding in Japan in 2017 based on the USD/JPY exchange rate on 2017-12-10.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL9/6/2024INCJ, Leading Investor in ispace’s Series A Financing, Completes Sale of ispace Shares

ispace-U.S. plans to expand its collaboration with Fusion to integrate other business areas contributing to Mission 3 and future missions.

NARRATIVE GROWTH8/1/2024ispace-U.S. Accelerates its Mission 3 Utilizing Agile Development with Fusion by Stoke Space

ispace raised 8,100,000,000 JPY in a secondary stock sale on 2024-03-28 with most of the funding allocated to aspects of the M3 lander including its launch and two relay satellites for far-side lunar communications.

NARRATIVE GENERAL5/11/2024Lunar lander company ispace sees opportunities in Japan-U.S. Artemis agreement

ispace became the first lunar transportation service provider to successfully launch a lunar lander in December 2022.

NARRATIVE GENERAL2/1/2024ispace Signs Memorandum of Understanding with mu Space for Future Lunar Missions

ispace plans to launch HAKUTO-R Mission 2 in Q4 of 2024.

NARRATIVE GROWTH1/1/2024New Year Statement of Takeshi Hakamada, Founder & CEO of ispace, inc.

iSpace became the first privately funded Chinese company to reach orbit in 2019 with the solid-fueled Hyperbola-1 rocket.

NARRATIVE GENERAL11/2/2023China’s iSpace launches and lands rocket test stage

ispace completed Mission 1 in May 2023, which aimed to become the world’s first commercial company to land on the moon.

NARRATIVE GENERAL10/2/2023ispace inc. Announces New Chief People Officer

ispace technologies U.S. staffed its Denver headquarters with more than 80 U.S. team members and plans to expand to more than 100 by the end of the year to support APEX 1.0 design and future production.

NARRATIVE GROWTH9/28/2023ispace - U.S. Announces new U.S. Headquarters, Unveils APEX 1.0 Lunar Lander, Provides Updates on Mission 3

ispace, inc. revised its net loss upward by ¥3,385 million (USD $23,400,000) to a net loss of ¥4,504 million (USD $31,100,000).

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL9/28/2023ispace - U.S. Announces new U.S. Headquarters, Unveils APEX 1.0 Lunar Lander, Provides Updates on Mission 3

iSpace, Expace, Space Pioneer, and Landspace reached orbit in 2023, and Orienspace aimed to conduct its first launch with the Gravity-1 solid rocket in the second half of 2023.

NARRATIVE GENERAL7/22/2023Galactic Energy registers sixth consecutive successful launch

ispace plans to offer about 24.7 million shares out of 78.6 million issued in the initial public offering.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL3/9/2023Japanese lunar lander company ispace to go public

ispace raised $46,000,000 in a Series C funding round in August 2021.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL3/9/2023Japanese lunar lander company ispace to go public

iSpace had achieved orbit with Hyperbola-1 in 2019 and subsequently experienced three consecutive launch failures before 2023.

TECHNICAL PRODUCT2/13/2023Launches of Chinese commercial rockets could double in 2023

ispace completed launch preparations including integration of the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander into the SpaceX Falcon 9 fairing on 2022-11-28.

NARRATIVE GENERAL11/28/2022ispace completes launch preparations for Mission 1

ispace plans to launch its first HAKUTO-R M1 lander on a Falcon 9 between 2022-11-09 and 2022-11-15 from Cape Canaveral.

NARRATIVE GROWTH10/13/2022Artemis 1, ispace lander set November launch dates

ispace plans to launch Mission 1 as early as November 2022 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

NARRATIVE GROWTH7/20/2022ispace Releases Key Updates for HAKUTO-R Mission 1
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