Ispace

By Robert Wall
Ispace selected Japan's H3 rocket to launch its Mission 3 Ultra lunar lander in 2028.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

Aviation Week Staff
Ispace Gets ESA Backing For Magpie Rover
Aerospace_Daily_departments

By Robert Wall
Ispace says it has secured European Space Agency backing for its Magpie lunar ice exploration rover.
Space Exploration

By Garrett Reim
Ispace Technologies U.S. and Draper plan to terminate their partnership to develop a lunar lander for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
Japan’s Ispace says it has secured capacity on a SpaceX Starship launch to expand its lunar transportation ambitions.
Operations & Safety

By Garrett Reim
Ispace of Japan has signed a memorandum of understand with ElevationSpace to develop a private lunar sample return mission.
Commercial Space

By Robert Wall
The ispace team investigating why its lunar lander crashed on June 6 says an anomaly in the systems laser range finder is the most likely culprit.
Operations & Safety

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
The death toll for spacecraft attempting soft landings on the Moon notched up another victim last week.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
Japan’s ispace failed in its second attempt to land a spacecraft on the Moon June 5, the cause of which has not yet been determined.
Space Exploration

By Garrett Reim
The European Space Agency has signed a contract extension with Ispace-Europe.
Space Exploration

By Garrett Reim
Competition for lunar resources is no longer hypothetical—it is happening now.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz, Mark Carreau
For the third time this year, a robotic lander will attempt to touch down on the surface of the Moon, this time from Japan's iSpace.
Operations & Safety

By Garrett Reim
Zeno Power has raised a $50 million Series B funding round to demonstrate its nuclear battery technology and ramp up its manufacturing.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
By moving from widgets to digits, the space industry is finding new homes in cities.
Commercial Space

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