Teun van den Dries

Denver, Colorado Press Release: Karman+, an asteroid mining startup, has raised $20 million in seed funding led by Plural and Hummingbird. The funding, which included participation from HCVC, Kevin Mahaffey (Lookout), co-founder Teun van den Dries and angel investors, will be used to develop its first technology demonstration mission

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

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

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

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.

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