Teun van den Dries

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 /0:07 1× With everyone at the bottom of this gravity well called Earth, getting anything into space requires a massive amount of effort and energy. That said, we lucked out! Earth sits in what you might call a Goldilocks gravity well: deep enough to hold onto an

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

0:00 /0:04 1× NASA's Lucy spacecraft is on a 12-year journey in which it will perform flyby encounters with at least 2 main belt and 6 Jupiter trojan asteroids. In November of 2023, one of its targets called 152830 Dinkinesh (we like its nickname Dinky better)

Supply chain was top of mind in the last couple of months, both strategically (what do we purchase and from whom, what do we build/run in house?) as well as tactically (what kind of impact will tariffs have?) for everything from raw materials to finished parts. The tactical stuff

💡"Creativity loves constraints, but must be balanced with a healthy disregard for the impossible." Marissa Mayer Welcome to "Poor Man's Guide to Deep Space Missions" – our detailed roadmap for space exploration on a shoestring budget. If you’ve ever gazed up at the stars