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 & Daynan Crull & Luke Bowersox, Jan 24, 2025
Our colleague Dianna Velez presented some of our work on mission design and spacecraft autonomy during the AAS/AIAA conference in August 2024. AAS24_Karman+HighFrontierAAS24_Karman+HighFrontier.pdf15 MBdownload-circle
by Teun van den Dries, Nov 07, 2024
Our theme in the last couple of months has been vertical integration. Our original (pretty naive) assumption was that the massive expansion of activity in space had created a somewhat reliable base of components that we could use for missions. We knew that most of that was developed for low
by Teun van den Dries, Oct 06, 2024
Happy International Asteroid Day everyone! This update covers our work on open-sourcing our roadmap and development, as well as our work on High Frontier with a deepdive into our work on excavation technology for 0G.
by Teun van den Dries, Jun 30, 2024
We are mining asteroids to supply the space economy. We want to move polluting industries away from Earth and into space. Enabling that requires us to rethink where we source natural resources to build robust systems of energy generation as well as heavy industry in Earth orbit. This will require
by Teun van den Dries, Jun 11, 2024
Hi everyone, This quarter was another exciting and challenging one for the industry at large. Lots of activity on the moon, another Starship launch and amazing science results such as the magnetic field imaging of black hole Sag A* shown above. Macro & Market This quarter was a great showreel
by Teun van den Dries, Apr 02, 2024