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TOKYO – ispace, inc. (ispace) (TOKYO: 9348), a global lunar exploration company, announced that the RESILIENCE lunar lander successfully completed a flyby of the Moon on Feb. 15, 2025, reaching its closest point at 22:43 UTC, Feb. 14, 2025. The RESILIENCE lander came within approximately 8,400 kilometers of the Moon’s surface on its flyby, a historic first of its type for a Japanese private, commercial lunar lander. RESILIENCE is now on a trajectory out to deep space before completing orbital maneuvers that will bring it back towards the Moon in advance of lunar orbit insertion. The date and time of the insertion maneuver have yet to be determined but are expected around early May. An image of the Moon taken on Feb. 15, 2025, by ispace’s RESILIENCE lunar lander at an altitude of 14,439 km.   Previously, RESILIENCE completed an orbital maneuver at 19:40:18 UTC, Jan. 16, 2025, at 250,000 kilometers from Earth, setting the lander on a course towards the Moon in order to co...

TOKYO – December 18, 2024 – ispace, inc. (ispace) (TOKYO: 9348), a global lunar exploration company, today released its SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon Mission 2 Milestones & Ventures, outlining its mission objectives and lunar surface exploration goals, as well as the opening of a six-day launch window mid-January, the company announced in a Keynote. ispace Mission 2 will launch to the Moon on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket along with the Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 which is set to launch during a six-day window that opens no earlier than mid-January 2025. The ispace RESILIENCE lunar lander will be the second to deploy during the mission. The RESILIENCE lander will take a low energy orbit as done during Mission 1, so transit will take several months ahead of a targeted landing 4 to 5 months after launch. “Today, we are excited to announce that in approximately one month, ispace’s historic Mission 2 will be launching and we will make our second attempt to land on the Moon,” said Takeshi Ha...