The Tokyo-based company aims to help open the lunar frontier.
exploration in the years to come. First and foremost, the Toyko-based company announced that it would be opening a new United States headquarters in Denver.
"We're a U.S. company launching an American spacecraft from American soil to the moon, but we're doing it with the strength of being a combined family of companies, a family of nations, all going to the moon together," former NASA astronaut Ron Garan, the CEO of ispace technologies U.S., said in the briefing.From its new U.S. headquarters, ispace will manufacture its new Apex 1.
Some of those payloads will be delivered on behalf of NASA. In today's briefing, ispace representatives announced that the primary customer for its upcoming Mission 3 is NASA, which has selected the company as part of its. ispace stated during the briefing that it has signed a $55 million contract with NASA for Mission 3 in order to land near the lunar south pole carrying approximately 210 pounds of scientific payloads.
But that's not all the mission will do. On its way to the lunar surface, Mission 3 will deliver relay satellites that will remain in orbit around the moon to serve as communication relays."And since there's still room for more payload capacity," Garan continued,"we are continuing conversations with private companies and government agencies to acquire global customers in addition to NASA.
Garan added that the company has already made an agreement to sign a contract for another Mission 3 payload, but that details cannot yet be disclosed.
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