ispace, inc.

📍 Tokyo, Japan🗓 Founded 2010👥 239 employees💰 Last funded Oct 2021
Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing🌐 ispace-inc.com
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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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Who invested in ispace, inc.?
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When did ispace, inc. last raise funding?
The most recent investment in ispace, inc. recorded on gritt.io was in October 2021.
When was ispace, inc. founded?
ispace, inc. was founded in 2010.
What industry is ispace, inc. in?
ispace, inc. operates in Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing. Find similar Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing investors on gritt.io.
Where is ispace, inc. based?
ispace, inc. is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.