K+ Mission 1 -> 99942 Apophis

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

In this ‘Planetary Perspectives’ interview, Dr. Lauri Siltala, a planetary scientist turned asteroid miner at Karman+, sheds light on the intriguing field of asteroid mining. The interview, conducted by the Europlanet Early Career (EPEC) Future Research Working Group, explores the convergence of planetary science and the space industry. Dr. Siltala

Hi everyone, New platform and framework for these updates, we hope this all works. Market The capital markets are still quite choppy, both for venture in general as well as for space in particular. With the collapse of Virgin Orbit, dramatically lower share prices for most of the space SPACs

So asteroid day is actually a thing. June 30th was chosen because it is the anniversary of the Tunguska asteroid impact, one of the most recent asteroid impacts that was felt and measured. While the general theme and the UN awareness campaign focus on planetary defense, we've always

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. Abstract document