Ispace

By Garrett Reim
U.S. President Donald Trump has laid claim to Canada and Greenland, but when will he lay claim to the Moon?
Space Symposium

By Chen Chuanren
Although the country is looking to foster a private space industry, the government remains a driving force.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA’s commercial lunar services initiative scores another major win.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander remains on course for a planned soft landing no earlier than March 2 at 3:45 a.m. EST on the Moon.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
Ispace of Japan’s commercial “Resilience” lunar lander has completed its initial orbital maneuver, setting it on a course toward the Moon.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
Moon dust and other characteristics of the lunar environment are due for closer inspection if two newly launched landers can make it safely to the lunar surface.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
Two pioneering commercial lunar landers, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 and Japan's ispace's Resilience, successfully launched early Jan. 15.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost vehicle will share the ride with another lunar lander owned by Japan’s iSpace.
Space Exploration

By Garrett Reim
Private lunar lander developer ispace is headquartered in Tokyo but has established subsidiaries in the U.S. and Europe.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
Ispace says it is targeting another attempt to touch down a lunar lander on the Moon’s surface around four to five months after launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
Space Exploration

By Garrett Reim
The memorandum of understanding is part of Thailand’s “National Space Experiment and Exploration” program.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz, Robert Wall
A number of initiatives were disclosed, but the talk of the show was SpaceX’s Starship booster catch, which happened just ahead of the IAC opening.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
Reaching the Moon to do something useful there involves preparation—which is now underway as agencies and companies aim to return humans to the lunar surface.
Space Exploration

By Garrett Reim
The CP-12 mission is led by Draper Laboratory, and the APEX 1.0 lunar lander is being developed by Ispace Technologies U.S.
Space Exploration

By Garrett Reim
An exact launch date has not been chosen, ispace said on Sept. 12.
Space Exploration

By Garrett Reim
Some co-founders at new space tech startups are trying to codify innovation.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Ispace distributed an image of a Komatsu tracked excavator on the lunar surface as part of its Aug. 8 announcement.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
Chinese privately funded launch company iSpace has suffered its fourth failure in seven launch attempts.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
The heater units would be used on ispace’s Series 3 lunar lander and rovers, planned for launch to the Moon by 2027.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
The small rover would travel to the Moon aboard the company’s Resilience lunar lander as part of the Hakuto-R Mission 2.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The Houston-based company is poised to become the fourth private entity to attempt a lunar landing.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Orbit Fab and ispace have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on developing rocket propellants from lunar resources.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Ispace of Tokyo plans to make a second attempt to land an uncrewed spacecraft on the Moon as soon as the fourth quarter of 2024.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
China’s iSpace has completed the country’s first test of a reusable rocket, performing a 50-sec. "hop" with the first stage of its Hyperbola-2 launch vehicle.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Ispace technologies U.S. has unveiled a redesigned Series 2 lunar lander renamed the APEX 1.0.
Commercial Space