
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
by Teun van den Dries & Lauri Siltala & Daynan Crull & Luke Bowersox, Jan 24, 2025
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

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
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
Technical Dispatches, as related by the team behind Karman+, are intended to bring readers behind the scenes and into the research. Consider this: Once solely the playground of large government agencies, ambitious space missions are now being jointly, or sometimes entirely, driven by the commercial space sector. These advances make
by Daynan Crull, Jan 26, 2023
Technical Dispatches are intended to bring readers behind the scenes and into the research. In this edition, Daynan, a Karman+ co-founder who has spent his career leading applied research and data and engineering teams, shares some of the driving principles guiding the science and engineering effort at Karman+. Welcome to
by Daynan Crull, Oct 27, 2022