ispace

Manufacturer Japan Listed
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About ispace

ispace, inc. is a Japanese commercial lunar exploration company founded in 2010 by Takeshi Hakamada, headquartered in Tokyo, developing lunar landers and rovers to establish a sustained human presence on the Moon by enabling commercial lunar resource utilization. The company raised over $90 million USD — including backing from JAFCO, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, and other investors — and participated in Google Lunar XPRIZE with Team HAKUTO. ispace's Mission 1 lunar lander launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare in December 2022 and reached lunar orbit in April 2023, but the RESILIENCE lander crashed during its final descent. ispace is developing Mission 2 (a landing attempt with a redesigned lander) and Mission 3 in collaboration with Draper. The company has also established ispace Europe (Luxembourg) and ispace US (Colorado), and is a key player in NASA's CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) program for delivering payloads to the Moon.

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Pair of lunar relay satellites providing communications and navigation support in cislunar space — S-band command/telemetry, Ka-band lunar proximity uplink, X-band downlink.

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Commercial lunar lander delivering customer payloads to the Moon — flew on HAKUTO-R Mission 2, launched January 2025, carrying the Tenacious micro rover and commercial payloads.

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One of the smallest and lightest planetary rovers in the world — flew on HAKUTO-R Mission 2, first European rover to launch to the Moon, ~5kg CFRP frame.

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Next-generation lunar lander in development for larger-payload missions starting with Mission 3 (2028) — funded by Japan's METI SBIR grant.

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