ispace, inc., a lunar resource development company, engages in designing and building lunar landers and rovers to transport customer payloads to the moon. The company also offers payload services, including video and driving data acquisition, as well as resource harvesting systems; and cameras, communications devices, and cell cultivation devices. In addition, it provides lunar data services, such as imaging, environmental data, telemetry, and resources information to government space agencies, universities, research institutions, and private companies for information, mission planning, and lunar surface development. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

ispace, inc.

ispace is a global lunar resource development company with the vision, “Expand our Planet. Expand our Future.”, specializing in designing and building lunar landers and rovers. ispace aims to extend the sphere of human life into space and create a sustainable world by providing high-frequency, low-cost transportation services to the Moon. The company has offices in Japan, Luxembourg, and the United States with more than 200 employees worldwide. ispace U.S. is part of a team led by Draper, which was awarded a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program contract to land on the far side of the Moon by 2025. Both ispace, and ispace EU were awarded contracts to collect and transfer ownership of lunar regolith to NASA, and ispace EU was selected by ESA to be part of the Science Team for PROSPECT, a program which seeks to extract water on the Moon.​

Established in 2010, ispace operated “HAKUTO”, which was one of five finalist teams in the Google Lunar XPRIZE race. The company’s first mission as part of its HAKUTO-R lunar exploration program launched on Dec. 11, 2022, from the United States on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is currently expected to land on the lunar surface at around late April 2023. Subsequent missions are in development with launches expected in 2024 and 2025. ispace has also launched a lunar data business concept to support new customers as a gateway to conduct business on the Moon.

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A message from ispace Founder & CEO Takeshi Hakamada on Intuitive Machines's great success:

Mission 2 #RESILIENCE lander progress continues each day! In this video from the end of last year, our engineers can be seen integrating the avionics system, which houses various components that serve as the lander’s brain and nervous system.

#ispace #HAKUTO_R #lunarquest #Moon

"Congratulations to JAXA for the successful launch of their H3 launch vehicle!" -- ispace Founder & CEO Takeshi Hakamada

"Congratulations to Intuitive Machines on the successful launch of IM-1!" -- ispace Founder & CEO Takeshi Hakamada

Wishing Intuitive Machines IM-1 a safe journey to the Moon! As we celebrate your many successes, we are also gearing up for our Mission 2, planned in 2024, and ispace US led Mission 3, for the NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Artemis program and our payload customers in collaboration with Draper, General Atomics and Karman Space & Defense, in 2026.

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