The completed Blue Ghost 1 lander, at Firefly's Texas headquarters, will launch in January on a Falcon 9. Credit: Firefly Aerospace WASHINGTON — Japanese lunar lander developer ispace has confirmed ...

HELSINKI — Launch startup iSpace has raised significant series D+ funding as commercial competitors in China report progress with hot fire tests. Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology Ltd., also ...

ispace's Resilience aims for moon landing after 2023 failure Firefly's Blue Ghost to be third CLPS moon lander Blue Ghost touchdown planned in March, Resilience in May-June NASA's Artemis program ...

The mission is scheduled to take place in 2028.

The private launch industry isn’t showing any signs of slowing down, and a new $172 million Series B round of funding for China commercial launch startup iSpace indicates it could be heating up ...

Japanese spacecraft startup ispace said on Friday it will further delay a U.S. government-sponsored lunar mission to 2030 and cut its global workforce, in a strategic shift after two failed ‌lunar ...

ispace, inc., a leader in lunar exploration, has successfully transported its Mission 2 RESILIENCE lunar lander to Florida for final preparations ahead of a planned launch in January 2025. The mission ...

Tokyo-based startup ispace’s lunar ambitions will soon be put to the test, as the company gears up for its first launch at the end of this month. The startup will attempt to send its “Hakuto-R” lander ...

ORLANDO, Florida/TOKYO (Reuters) -Two moon landers, one from Japan's ispace and another from U.S. space firm Firefly, began their journeys into space on Wednesday with SpaceX's unusual double moonshot ...