Now Scheduled to launch on November 30, 2022
TOKYO—November 24, 2022— ispace, inc., a global lunar exploration company, released an updated launch schedule for its Mission 1 (M1) lunar lander, now scheduled to liftoff from SLC-40 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Nov. 30, 2022, at the earliest. The M1 lander, part of a the HAKUTO-R lunar exploration program, will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
The updated schedule is the result of launch constraints such as unfavorable weather conditions that impacted launches from the designated launch pad.
HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Updated Launch Schedule
Launch date: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 *
Time: 3:39 a.m., Wednesday, November 30, 2022 (U.S. Eastern Standard Time)
5:39 p.m., Wednesday, November 30, 2022 (Japan Standard Time)
Launch site: Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, U.S.
*The above dates and times are subject to change depending on weather and other conditions.
The launch can be viewed on SpaceX’s livestream. ispace’s mission control center will also livestream during the launch. For more information about how to view these streams, please follow us on social media or our web site at: www.ispace-inc.com.
YouTube
ispace (English): https://www.youtube.com/@ispace9464/videos
HAKUTO-R channel (Japanese): https://www.youtube.com/@HAKUTOR
ispace Twitter (English): @ispace_inc
HAKUTO-R Twitter (Japanese): @ispace_HAKUTO_R
About ispace, inc.
ispace, a global lunar resource development company with the vision, “Expand our Planet. Expand our Future.”, specializes in designing and building lunar landers and rovers. ispace aims to extend the sphere of human life into space and create a sustainable world by providing high-frequency, low-cost transportation services to the Moon. The company has offices in Japan, Luxembourg, and the United States with more than 200 employees worldwide. ispace technologies U.S., inc. is part of a team led by Draper, which was awarded a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program contract to land on the far side of the Moon by 2025 (as of November 2022). Both ispace, and ispace EUROPE S.A. (ispace EU) were awarded contracts to collect and transfer ownership of lunar regolith to NASA, and ispace EU was selected by ESA to be part of the Science Team for PROSPECT, a program which seeks to extract water on the Moon.
Established in 2010, ispace operated “HAKUTO” which was one of five finalist teams in the Google Lunar XPRIZE race. The company’s first mission as part of its HAKUTO-R lunar exploration program is currently planned for as early as November 2022 and is expected to launch from the United States on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. ispace has also launched a lunar data business concept to support new customers as a gateway to conduct business on the Moon.
For more information, visit: www.ispace-inc.com; Follow us on Twitter: @ispace_inc.