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ispace-U.S. will contribute to the Draper-led Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative to deliver payloads for scientific investigations to the far side of the Moon in 2026.
About 7,100,000,000 JPY of the funds will go toward various elements of Mission 3, a lander being developed by ispace U.S. for Draper.
ispace has $55,000,000 earmarked for Mission 3 as its share of the CLPS award to Draper.
Rhea Space Activity’s JAM modules will be flown in conjunction with ispace-U.S.’s contribution to the Draper-led Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative to deliver Artemis science investigations to the far side of the Moon in 2026.
The Draper-led Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative will land in the Schrödinger Basin near the Moon’s South Pole and is expected to launch in 2026.
The Draper-led lunar lander mission will carry the APEX 1.0 lander that ispace U.S. will design and operate to the far side of the Moon as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.
Rhea Space Activity will fly two Jervis Autonomy Module (JAM) units on a Draper-led lunar lander mission scheduled to launch in 2026.
James Bickford of Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Massachusetts received a 2024 NIAC Phase I grant for a Thin Film Isotope Nuclear Engine Rocket.
Ursa Major developed Draper, a storable liquid engine designed to defend against hypersonic weapons.
The first APEX 1.0 lander for the Draper CLPS mission is designated Mission 3 by ispace and is slated to launch in 2026.
APEX 1.0 is being used for a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) mission led by Draper.
Draper is leading a team that includes ispace US, which is designing a new lunar lander called APEX 1.0.
NASA has pushed back the launch of Draper’s CLPS mission from 2025 to 2026 due to redesign efforts.
The Draper-led NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission known to ispace as Mission 3 and to NASA as CP-12 was originally projected to launch in 2025 and has slipped to 2026 because of the lander redesign.
ispace – U.S. joined Team Draper in 2022 as the lunar lander design agent to deliver NASA-sponsored science and commercial payloads to the Moon’s far side under the CLPS program (CP-12 mission).
Ursa Major will build a dedicated test stand for the Draper engine and plans to hotfire the engine within 12 months.
Under the Air Force Research Laboratory contract, Ursa Major will build and test a prototype of its Draper engine for hypersonics and will further develop its 200,000-pound-thrust Arroway engine for space launch.
Ursa Major plans to build a dedicated test stand for the Draper engine and to hotfire the engine within 12 months.
Draper is a member of the Blue Origin-led National Team developing the human lunar lander.
ispace’s U.S. subsidiary is developing a larger Series 2 lander for a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission led by Draper scheduled for 2025.