Foundation: 2010
Headquarters: Minato Ward, Tokyo
Founder & CEO: Takeshi Hakamada
Executive Summary: ispace is a lunar exploration company with a vision to extend the human presence into outer space. They believe that by 2040 the Moon can support a population of 1,000 to 10,000 people. It not only has the goal of creating a sustainable Earth and Moon ecosystem, but also intends to promote marketing support for space content industries, surveys and sales of the Moon surface, high frequency lunar transport, payload development for lunar orbiting and landing, and R&D for space resources development. ispace is currently working on achieving the world’s first commercial lunar exploration program. ispace’s annual income is currently undisclosed.
