Daynan Crull

0:00 /0:10 1× Everything we encounter in the solar system is moving, both on its path around the sun as well as on some sort of spin around one or more axis. That rotation rate is one of the bigger unknowns for any asteroid we target, in part

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

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

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

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

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