K+ Update | Q3 2025

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. Our primary mission goal is to explore and test our excavation equipment and validate the feasibility of

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

Hi everyone, We updated our website to add more content and interactivity, also running on the Ghost platform that we utilize for these updates. Macro & Market We finally saw the Psyche mission launch yesterday after its launch was delayed by a year. The spacecraft will cruise past Mars into

The NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned its collected sample on 24 September 2023 before continuing on into its extended mission to asteroid Apophis, which is set to make a close encounter of Earth in 2029. With an estimated 250 grams of material collected, we're looking forward to the results

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

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 and comprehensivess of his vision blends together a fundamental optimism about our ability to build and engineer