SAN FRANCISCO – Orbit Fab, a startup developing in-space refueling services, announced plans Dec. 11 to work with lunar exploration company ispace on propellant harvesting and delivery. “We’re looking forward to ispace’s upcoming lander missions. And we’re looking to work with them to effectively create the full end-to-end propellant supply chain […]
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LAS VEGAS — The Japanese government is providing ispace with $80 million to help fund development of a new lunar lander in parallel with a similar effort by the company’s U.S. subsidiary. Tokyo-based ispace said Oct. 20 that it won an innovation grant from the government’s Ministry of Economy, Trade […]
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will provide a subsidy of up to 12 billion yen ($80 million) to moon exploration startup ispace as part of a grant programme for innovative ventures, industry minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said on Friday. Tokyo-based ispace aims to launch its second moon lander next year […]
Private spaceflight company ispace has laid out its plans for its next missions to the moon. In a media briefing held Thursday (Sept. 28), ispace representatives made a series of announcements that show the company is aiming to be a major player in moon exploration in the years to come. […]
WASHINGTON — The American subsidiary of Japanese company ispace has revised the design of a lunar lander it is providing for a NASA mission, pushing back the launch of that mission by a year. The company, ispace technologies U.S., unveiled the new lander design, called APEX 1.0, at a Sept. […]
WASHINGTON — A software glitch kept a lunar lander from properly determining its altitude, leading to a crash on its landing attempt last month, Japanese company ispace announced May 26. The Tokyo-based company said its investigation into the failed landing of its HAKUTO-R M1 lander April 25 concluded that the […]
Why It Matters: Learning and improving. A review of data showed that the software guiding the descent appeared to lose track of the landers’s altitude when it passed over the rim of a crater on the moon’s surface that was about two miles higher than the surrounding terrain. The software […]
A Japanese company hoping to carry out a rare private Moon landing says it is likely its lunar lander crashed on the surface. Communication was lost with Hakuto-R moments before it was due to touch down at approximately 16:40 GMT on Tuesday. Engineers are investigating what happened. The Tokyo-based iSpace […]