Dr. Lauri Siltala, astronomer and asteroid characterization specialist at Karman+, will present at the Asteroids, Comets, Meteors Conference 2023 at Flagstaff, Arizona, on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, 10:52 AM.
Karman+ announces Call for Proposals: High Frontier Payloads
In 2026, Karman+ will be flying ‘High Frontier’, our first mission to a near-Earth asteroid. We are focused on carbonaceous asteroids, both for their water content as well as for their physical composition.
Why the High Frontier?
Written in 1976 as a blueprint for expansion into space, Princeton professor Gerard K. O’Neill worked with NASA and other researchers for decades to validate and prove out his plans.
The elegance
The Karman+ leaderboard: How to find a mission target?
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