Created: 2018-11-22
Updated: 2025-09-06
Company - ispace
Product/Service - HAKUTO-R, Blueprint Moon, Series 1, Series 2
- Classification
- Cargo Transportation & Landers
- Category
- Transport Service (LEO-Moon)
Commercial Lunar Lander
Lunar Data Analytics
- Fields
- Moon
- Status
- Development, Launched
- First launch
- 2022
Series 1
A small commercial lunar lander used for delivering customer payloads to the Moon.
Series 2
News and Updates
- Japanese lunar lander company ispace raises $53.5 million in stock sale, SpaceNews, 2024-03-28.
- Most of the funding — about 7.1 billion yen — will go towards various elements of what the company calls Mission 3, a lander being developed by its American subsidiary, ispace U.S., for Draper. That APEX 1.0 lander will fly a mission in 2026 for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, going to the far side of the moon.
- The company said 1.8 billion yen will be used to cover part of the cost of two relay satellites being built by Blue Canyon Technologies to handle communications between the farside lander and the Earth.
- It is spending 2.1 billion yen for part of the cost of the mission’s launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, while 3.2 billion yen will go towards production of the lander itself.
- The company will use the remaining 1 billion yen for other working capital.
- The funds raised by the stock sale will not cover the costs of Mission 3 or the later Mission 6, Nozaki said, noting that the company continues to run at a loss because of high research and development expenses for its ongoing missions. The company reported an operating loss of 3.75 billion yen in the third quarter of fiscal year 2023, which closes at the end of March 2024.
- The company does has sufficient funding for Mission 2, which is scheduled to launch near the end of the year on a Falcon 9.
- Firefly, ispace lunar landers to share Falcon 9 launch, 2024-12-18. Japanese lunar lander developer ispace has confirmed that its second mission to the moon will launch on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 as Firefly Aerospace’s first lunar lander.
- Laser rangefinder problems blamed for second ispace lunar lander crash, 2025-06-24.
Status Comment
Laser rangefinder problems blamed for second ispace lunar lander crash, 2025-06-24.
Notes
- Japan’s ispace: the unruly start-up that shot for the Moon and missed, 2023-09-06.
- Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry Selects ispace, inc. for Innovation Grant Worth Up to Approximately $80 Million for Lunar Infrastructure Development, 2023-10-20.
- ispace was selected by METI in Phase 3 of the SBIR for the “Development and Operational Demonstration of a Lunar Lander.”
- Under the terms of the grant, ispace will be expected to design, manufacture, and assemble a lunar lander with the capability of transporting a minimum payload of 100 kg to the Moon’s surface, then launch and operate the lander by 2027.
- Japanese lunar lander company ispace raises $53.5 million in stock sale, SpaceNews, 2024-03-28.
- Ispace: Lunar operations have reached an industrialization phase, 2024-05-10.
- Lunar lander company ispace sees opportunities in Japan-U.S. Artemis agreement, SpaceNews, 2024-05-11.
- Redwire and ispace U.S. to collaborate on lunar missions, 2025-04-08.
- ispace-U.S. and Zeno Power Announce Strategic Collaboration on Surviving the Lunar Night Using Radioisotope Power Systems, 2025-04-10.
- ispace and Bridgestone Sign Agreement to Develop Tires for Small-to-Medium-Sized Lunar Rovers, 2025-07-31.
Product/Service - Rover
- Classification
- Surface Spacecraft
- Category
- Commercial Rover
- Fields
- Lunar Rover
Moon
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- 2025
Rover
ispace-EUROPE Announces Completion of Testing on Micro Rover Qualification Model, 2024-04-12.
- Completed all environmental testing of the qualification model of its Micro Rover that will travel to the lunar surface aboard the RESILIENCE lunar lander as part of ispace, inc.’s HAKUTO-R Mission 2.
- The Micro Rover is being developed with co-funding from the Luxembourg Space Agency through a European Space Agency contract with the Luxembourg National Space Programme, LuxIMPULSE.
- The design of the micro rover has HD-cameras on both sides of the rover and a back-mounted shovel.
Status Comment
Launched on Hakuto-R Mission 2 but the lander crashed.
Created: 2023-02-10
Updated: 2025-09-06
Product/Service
- Classification
- Space Utilities
- Category
- In-Space Communications Relay
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- 2027
Status Comment
Mission 3 pushed to 2027 in 2025.
Created: 2024-07-09
Updated: 2025-09-06
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News, Research, Projects and Patents
| Title | Type | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Israel’s Helios Signs Agreement with iSpace to Produce Oxygen on the Moon | News | 2021-07-26 | |
| UNSW partners with ispace to accelerate a lunar economy | News | 2020-06-23 | > UNSW Sydney has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Japanese lunar exploration company ispace, to jointly pursue research and development in space resources and infrastructure. |
| The global race to mine outer space | News | 2020-05-22 | |
| Lunar Ore Reserves Standards 101 (LORS-101), a First Code for the Reporting of Lunar Exploration Results, Lunar Resources, and Lunar Reserves | Publication | 2019-11-20 | > This work introduces the current development of the Lunar Ore Reserves Standards (LORS101). These standards aim to provide a consistent guide to Lunar resource explorers, miners, investors, and any concerned party interested in the estimation of Lunar resources (mineral and volatiles) quantities. |
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