Press Release

May 7, 2024
ispace, inc.

ispace Cooperates with UNESCO on the Lunar Mission
By Transporting Humanity’s Languages and Cultures Saved Memory Disk to the Moon
Tokyo – May 7, 2024 – ispace, inc. (ispace) announced its cooperation with the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on a lunar mission, intended to preserve
humanity’s language and cultures on the Moon.

From left, Sally Costerton, Interim President and CEO ICANN, Tawfik Jelassi, Assistant DirectorGeneral for Communication and Information UNESCO, and Julien Lamamy, CEO of ispace EUROPE S.A.
At the Information Meeting on Universal Acceptance, held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on May
6, 2024, UNESCO announced its mission to transport and safeguard languages and cultural treasureson the lunar surface. The cultural artifacts are saved on a special “memory disk”, which UNESCO
jointly developed with an innovation platform based in California. On behalf of ispace, inc., Julien
Lamamy, CEO of ispace EUROPE S.A. (ispace-EUROPE) spoke at the event with UNESCO members
involved in the project, aimed to preserve languages through the use of technology and others.

Julien Lamamy, CEO of ispace EUROPE S.A. Presenting at the Information Meetingon Universal Acceptance
UNESCO is committed to preserving the linguistic diversity represents human cultures from any crisis
that threatens their destruction in the future, and preservation on the lunar surface is one means topreserve cultures. The memory disk bears the UNESCO Constitution’s Preamble, which express theimportance of preserving world unity, linguistic diversity, and cultures translated into 275 languages.
ispace, inc., with employees of 30 different nationalities in three entities (Japan, US, and Europe)
contributes to the promotion of national space policies and the space industry while leveraging theculture and diversity of each country and region as one integrated global company. ispace aims toestablish our vision of long-term lunar development and the creation of the cislunar economy.
Regarding the lunar mission, UNESCO’s philosophy of maintaining and preserving the diversity ofhumanity’s language resonated with ispace’s corporate philosophy and ispace plans to install thememory disk on the RESILIENCE lunar lander as part of ispace, inc.’s HAKUTO-R Mission 2 scheduled
to be launched in the winter of 2024.
“Maintaining linguistic diversity and preserving culture are significant aspects of UNESCO’s mandate.
We are very honored to announce that ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 2 will contribute to realize
UNESCO’s lunar mission to benefit world.” said Julien Lamamy, CEO of ispace-Europe. “We continueto progress on HAKUTO-R Mission 2, with the recent lander and rover development achievementsthat put us on a timeline for a Winter 2024 launch carrying UNESCO’s payload.”
About ispace, inc. (https://ispace-inc.com)
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 thesphere of human life into space and create a sustainable world by providing high-frequency, low-costtransportation services to the Moon. The company has business entities in Japan, Luxembourg, andthe United States with approximately 300 employees worldwide. For more information,
visit: www.ispace-inc.com and follow us on X: @ispace_inc.
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