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China’s Space Pioneer is preparing for the maiden launch of its Tianlong-3, a vehicle similar in design, size, and payload ...
LUXEMBOURG, July 25, 2024--ispace EUROPE announced the completion of flight model of lunar micro rover assembly in Luxembourg and is ready for integration into the lunar lander.
Currently, ispace's Resilience moon lander is scheduled to land on Thursday, June 5, at 3:17 p.m. EDT (1917 GMT), though it will be 4:17 a.m. Japan Standard Time on Friday, June 6, at touchdown time.
The Resiliance lander for ispace's 2nd moon mission is under construction, as it aims to send a mini-rover to the lunar surface after a winter 2024 launch.
Ispace is serving as the design agent and subcontractor for that mission. The companies won a $73 million contract from NASA as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program to ...
ispace is done analyzing data from its failed Hakuto-R lunar landing, and it sounds like tricky terrain and a late change in the landing site are to blame.
Founded in 2010, Ispace has said it wants to create a lunar settlement by 2040, and plans to make money by ferrying goods and equipment to the moon. It’s competing with a number of companies ...
ispace, which has headquarters in Japan, Luxembourg, and the US, has raised nearly $95 million, and it will use that money to help fund these first two Falcon 9 flights.
Ispace says it’s raised nearly $95 million in funding to support the Hakuto-R campaign. The 2020 mission would put a probe in lunar orbit, and the 2021 mission would send a lander and rover ...
Ispace’s lunar orbiter/lander and lunar rovers would fly as secondary payloads on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. The primary goal for the first mission would be to put a spacecraft into lunar orbit.
Ispace founder and CEO Takeshi Hakamada confirmed that the lander had arrived in Cape Canaveral, Florida, via cargo plane in advance of launch. ispace’s lander being loaded onto the cargo plane.