Airbus Ventures: Invest in ispace: A Series 1 lunar lander
Airbus Ventures:
On October 26, it announced that it would invest in ispace.
ispace is a space startup working on a private lunar exploration project.
First mission:
The lunar lander developed by ispace,
By Falcon 9 from SpaceX
It is scheduled to be launched in the latter half of 2022.
“Google Lunar XPRIZE”:
ispace was finalized in the “Google Lunar XPRIZE” robot lunar exploration race.
Lunar Lander “Series 1”:
Based on the lunar rover development results, we are aiming for the first lunar landing by the lunar lander “Series 1”.
Final assembly in Europe:
Lander was designed in Japan.
Currently, final assembly is underway in Europe.
It will be launched in the United States in the future.
Invested by Airbus Ventures:
The total investment by Airbus Ventures has been 21.8 billion yen ($ 200 million) so far.
Airbus Ventures is headquartered in Silicon Valley
Established offices in Japan and Toulouse, France.
We are investing in start-up companies around the world.
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Airbus Ventures invests in Tokyo-based ispace
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Airbus Ventures
announced an investment Oct. 25 in ispace, the Toyko-based company preparing to send its first lander to the moon next year.
Airbus Ventures brought ispace into its portfolio
because “it’s an extraordinary team that has positioned the right technologies at the right time,”
Lewis Pinault, the Airbus Ventures partner who leads the firm’s investments in Asia, told SpaceNews.
“They have every chance of being the first private company on the moon.”
Airbus Ventures also is enthusiastic about ispace’s plan to acquire data on lunar mineral and energy resources,
Pinault said.
Since it was founded in Japan in 2010, ispace has established offices in Luxembourg and Denver,
and relationships with space agencies and private companies around the world.
A Series 1 ispace lunar lander
is undergoing final assembly in an ArianeGroup facility in Germany ahead of its flight scheduled for the second half of 2022 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.The ispace’s lander
is slated to deliver lunar payloads forthe UAE-based Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre,
the Japanese Space Agency JAXA,
and commercial firms in Japan and Canada.
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