CORE BUSINESS
ispace, a global lunar exploration company with the vision, “Expand our planet. Expand our future.”, specializes in designing and building lunar landers and rovers. ispace aims to extend the sphere of human life into space and create a sustainable world by providing high-frequency, low-cost transportation services to the Moon. The company has business entities in Japan, Luxembourg, and the United States with approximately 300 employees worldwide. The Luxembourg office includes an engineering design centre, a manufacturing lab, a lunar analog facility, and a mission control room to operate missions on the lunar surface and in lunar orbit. For more information, visit: www.ispace-inc.com and follow us on X: @ispace_inc.
PRODUCTS & SERVICES
- Payload Delivery: We deliver payloads (cargo) to the Moon using our small and lightweight lunar landers and rovers.
- Data Analytics: Using our lunar rovers, we will collect critical information about the lunar environment and its resources, and process them into valuable data products for space and non-space customers.
- Partnerships: We offer opportunities for companies to join the lunar adventure through partnerships based on joint technology development, space business entry and corporate branding.
- Resource Exploration Services: We provide services and expertise in fields such as mission planning, space resources and reserves evaluation, autonomous navigation systems and space resources prospection and exploration.
TECHNICAL MEANS
ispace’s robotic lunar landers and lunar rovers are designed to provide low-cost, high-frequency transportation of customer payloads to the surface of the Moon or lunar orbit (scientific equipment, technology development experiments for example):
- Apex 1.0 lander: 300kg design payload capacity to the surface (2mT in orbit)
- Series 3 lander: up to 500kg design payload capacity to the surface (2mT in orbit).
Our range of lunar rovers, developed and built by ispace-EUROPE in Luxembourg, offer payload capacity for customer applications requiring mobility on the lunar surface and carry ispace’s own cameras and other instruments to catalogue the lunar environment and the dynamic interaction of the rover with the lunar surface.
MAIN CUSTOMERS
- Space agencies, research institutes, private space companies
- Non-space commercial companies willing to expand their business in outer space or to use space-based technologies for terrestrial applications
MAJOR SPACE PROJECTS
ispace-EUROPE activities in Luxembourg include:
- Development of commercial lunar rovers
- Development of lunar data analytics solutions
- Development of methods to prospect, explore, extract and process lunar resources
Key project:
- MAGPIE: a lunar rover mission to confirm the
presence of water ice in lunar polar regions.
ispace leads a European consortium developing this ground-breaking ESA mission. Awarded Phase 1 development contract by ESA in June 2025, targeting launch before 2030.
