ispace
ispace (TYO: 9348) is a publicly traded Lunar & Planetary company founded in 2010 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
Founded by Takeshi Hakamada, Tokyo-based ispace develops micro-robotic landers and rovers to provide low-cost, frequent transportation to and on the Moon under its HAKUTO-R program. The company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market in April 2023 (ticker 9348) after raising more than $235 million in private capital. Its first two landing attempts, in 2023 and June 2025, both reached lunar orbit and began descent but failed to soft-land; ispace continues toward future missions with US and Japanese operations and a roster of commercial and government payload customers.
It is the leading commercial lunar-lander company outside the United States and a publicly traded barometer for Japan's private space ambitions.
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