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Daynan Crull

Mission architect & co-founder

K+ Update | Q3 2025

0:00 /0:07 1× With all of the parts and components for our spacecraft ordered and on their way, we are currently going through rapid iterations of our design with a series of full scale builds. These engineering models help identify issues and challenges early, as well as test

K+ Update | Q2 2025

0:00 /1:13 1× We are in full build&test mode at the moment, across all of the components on our spacecraft. Design->Build->Test->Break->Redesign This last quarter was a bit of a disappointment for lunar activity (ispace' Hakuta-R mission 2

K+ Update | Q4 2024

We talked/ranted a lot about NRE and vertical integration in our Q3 update, a theme that ended up also dominating the last 3 months of 2024 for us. The first mission budget we made for High Frontier (we're talking late 2022, so almost 2 years ago) was

The Karman+ leaderboard: How to find a mission target?

Technical Dispatches, as related by the minds behind Karman+, are intended to bring readers behind the scenes and into the research. In this edition, Dr. Lauri Siltala, a Finnish astronomer and asteroid characterization specialist at Karman+, unveils a critical part of Karman+’s mission target selection process: Compono, or the

by Daynan Crull & Lauri Siltala, Nov 27, 2023

Mission ConOps for 'High Frontier'

The Concept of Operations (ConOps) for our first mission is focused on achieving the following core goals: * Excavate regolith at kilogram scale * Establish a baseline for cost and scaling in deep space * Characterize regolith reserves Let's unpack those in a bit more detail. Excavate regolith at kilogram scale

by Daynan Crull & Dianna Velez, Sep 04, 2023

CPR News interviewing Daynan Crull, cofounder of Karman+, and Angel Abbud-Madrid, Director at the Center for Space Resources Colorado School of Mines

Interview by Ryan Warner on CPR, Colorado Public Radio: Karman+ is exploring how to mine water and minerals from asteroids. Startup company Karman+ recently won a $1.3 million state incentive, payable over eight years, to move to Colorado. The firm is developing plans to mine water and minerals from

by Daynan Crull, Feb 14, 2023

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