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About ispace

ispace, inc. is a Tokyo lunar-exploration company, founded in 2010, that designs and builds lunar landers and rovers and sells transportation and payload services to the Moon. Its HAKUTO-R programme flew two missions on SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets: Mission 1 in 2023 and Mission 2 in 2025, the latter carrying the RESILIENCE lander and the TENACIOUS micro rover built by its Luxembourg subsidiary. Both missions completed most of their planned milestones and reached the final descent phase, but both landing attempts ended in hard landings, as documented in the technical cause analyses the company published afterwards; the HAKUTO-R programme formally concluded in December 2025.

Development continues on two next-generation landers: APEX 1.0, led by the US entity for a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission with Draper, and a larger Series 3 lander under development in Japan. The company works through three entities in Japan, Luxembourg and the United States, employs more than 300 people (company-stated), and positions its landers and rovers as the robotics layer of an emerging cislunar economy, carrying government and commercial payloads. As a listed growth company it has reported net losses in recent fiscal years while funding this development (per its public filings).

Products & services

• Lunar landers (Series 2 RESILIENCE; APEX 1.0 and Series 3 in development) for payload delivery to the lunar surface
• TENACIOUS lunar micro rover for surface exploration and regolith collection
• Lunar payload transportation and mission operations services
• Lunar data and mission partnership programmes with corporate partners
• Rover and lander development through entities in Japan, Luxembourg and the United States

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