With SpaceX Starship, Japan's ispace provides ride-share to the moon
The Tokyo-based company bought 500 kg of Starship capacity for $50 million as it builds a lunar surface vehicle for shared cargo rides.
- On Wednesday, Tokyo-based Ispace announced it purchased 500 kg of cargo capacity for $50 million on SpaceX's Starship, targeting a 2030 lunar landing to start a new, lower-cost cargo business.
- Following unsuccessful 2023 and 2025 lunar touchdown attempts using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets, Ispace is diversifying its transportation strategy to lower costs and improve mission success.
- Chief Executive Takeshi Hakamada said the partnership will "exponentially" accelerate growth, as the firm builds a lunar surface vehicle to host client payloads globally.
- Ispace Executive Vice President Hideari Kamiya described the new "lunar access integrator" service as providing moon-bound "buses" that complement dedicated "taxis" to the moon's surface.
- While Astrolab also booked Starship flights, NASA plans to utilize Starship's first lunar landing in 2028 for its Artemis program to send astronauts back to the moon.
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Ispace CEO on Lunar Transportation Plans With SpaceX
Takeshi Hakamada, Founder and CEO at Ispace, discusses the company's plans to to create a lunar payload service to be launched aboard a SpaceX Starship rocket. He speaks with Shery Ahn on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)
With SpaceX Starship, Japan's ispace provides ride-share to the moon
Japanese company books 1,100 pounds of cargo space on SpaceX Starship mission to the moon
ispace is expanding its already extensive moon plans to include SpaceX's Starship megarocket.The Tokyo-based company announced today (July 8) that it has booked 1,100 pounds (500 kilograms) of cargo capacity on Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, for a moon mission that could launch as soon as 2030. The deal is worth $50 million, according to Tokyo Brief."We are very pleased to be able to offer the new Lunar Access Integra…
ispace to send larger payloads to the moon on SpaceX’s Starship
Japanese lunar exploration company ispace is buying space on a future Starship lunar lander mission to deliver larger payloads to the moon. The post ispace to send larger payloads to the moon on SpaceX’s Starship appeared first on SpaceNews.
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