ispace Inc. is a publicly traded Japanese company developing robotic spacecraft and other technology to compete for both transportation and exploration mission contracts from space agencies and other private industries. ispace's mission is to enable its clients to discover, map, and use natural lunar resources.

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Japanese company ispace's Hakuto-R Mission 2 lander will attempt a lunar landing in Mare Frigoris.

SpaceX

Firefly Aerospace is an American private aerospace firm based in Austin, Texas, that develops small and medium-sized launch vehicles for commercial launches to orbit.

Firefly Aerospace

Blue Ghost is a commercial lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace for NASA’s CLPS program. Blue Ghost is designed to bring up to 155kg of payload to the lunar surface. It will land at Mare Crisium in the Crisium Basin and is designed to last 14 days before freezing in the lunar night.

Resilience is the second mission of the Hakuto-R commercial lunar lander developed by private Japanese company ispace. The lander will carry a small rover developed by ispace to perform studies on the moon's surface. The rover is also expected to collect lunar regolith as part of a contract with NASA signed in 2020, in which companies will collect materials on the moon and then transfer ownership "in situ" to the agency.

Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”

Lunar Orbit

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”

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The John F. Kennedy Space Center, located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of NASA's ten field centers. Since 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS).

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Launch Complex 39A

Falcon 9

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

Launch Successful

Hakuto-R M2 Lunar Landing

Moon Landing

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English

ispace SMBC x HAKUTO-R VENTURE MOON: Live Landing Coverage

Official Webcast

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Japanese

ispace SMBC x HAKUTO-R VENTURE MOON 着陸生配信

Axiom Space, Inc., also known as Axiom, is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and orbital spaceflight services company headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Axiom Space

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

The AX-4 Crew Dragon will dock autonomously to the International Space Station.

This is a Crew Dragon flight for a private company Axiom Space. The mission will carry a professionally trained commander alongside three private astronauts to and from the International Space Station. This crew will stay aboard space station for  at least eight days.

Axiom Space Mission 3

Low Earth Orbit

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Axiom Space Mission 3

Axiom Space provides human spaceflight missions to the International Space Station. 
The company sent its first commercial astronauts into orbit in 2022. It also plans human spaceflight for government-funded and commercial astronauts engaging in in-space research, in-space manufacturing, and space exploration.

Ax-1 Patch

Axiom Mission 2 Patch

Ax-3 Patch

Axiom Private Spaceflight

Human Spaceflight

SpaceX AX-4 Crew Dragon Docking

Canadian Space Agency

European Space Agency

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)

The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the sixteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilization, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station. It was conceived in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, during the Space Station Freedom project as it was originally called.

International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. Its first component was launched into orbit in 1998, with the first long-term residents arriving in November 2000. It has been inhabited continuously since that date. The last pressurised module was fitted in 2011, and an experimental inflatable space habitat was added in 2016. The station is expected to operate until 2030. Development and assembly of the station continues, with several new elements scheduled for launch in 2019. The ISS is the largest human-made body in low Earth orbit and can often be seen with the naked eye from Earth. The ISS consists of pressurised habitation modules, structural trusses, solar arrays, radiators, docking ports, experiment bays and robotic arms. ISS components have been launched by Russian Proton and Soyuz rockets, and American Space Shuttles.

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Docking

Coverage of the Rendezvous and Docking of the SpaceX/Axiom-4 Dragon to the International Space Station (Docking scheduled at 12:30 p.m. EDT followed by hatch opening and welcoming remarks).

Axiom Mission 4 Arrival and Welcome Remarks

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SpaceX will static fire Starship/Super Heavy Booster 16, in preparation for Starship's 10th launch.

Booster 16 Static Fire

The SpaceX Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX since 2012, as a self-funded private spaceflight project.  The second stage of the Starship — is designed as a long-duration cargo and passenger-carrying spacecraft. It is expected to be initially used without any booster stage at all, as part of an extensive development program to prove out launch-and-landing and iterate on a variety of design details, particularly with respect to the vehicle's atmospheric reentry.

SpaceX Starship

Technology

Static Fire

SpaceX is conducting Booster testing with Booster 16. It is expected that Booster 16 will be used for Starship Flight 10, and be caught by the chopsticks.

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SCRUB: SpaceX Performs Static Fire of Booster 16 for Starship Flight 10

Unofficial Webcast

Expedition 73

Government

Shenzhou 20

The Tiangong space station is a space station placed in Low Earth orbit between 340 and 450 km above the surface. It will be roughly one-fifth the mass of the International Space Station and about the size of the Mir space station.

Imagem do Dia

Descubra o Cosmos!

Eventos

Hakuto-R M2 Lunar Landing

SpaceX AX-4 Crew Dragon Docking

Booster 16 Static Fire

Estações Espaciais

International Space Station

Tiangong space station