News

Karman+ has what it takes to crack asteroid mining - Sten Tamkivi’s Seikatsu Blog ArchiveSten Tamkivi's Seikatsu - Blog Archive

How Karman+ will mine asteroids for water to fuel satellitesDenver-based Karman+ has announced a US$20 million funding round led by European venture capital firms Hummingbird and Plural to further its mission to mine water from asteroids for use as spacecraft propellant. It seems that space mining is finding a

Karman+ digs up $20M to build an asteroid-mining autonomous spacecraft | TechCrunchInvestors on the lookout for startups working at the frontiers of technology are casting their nets ever further into unchartered territory, sometimesTechCrunchIngrid Lunden

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 and

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

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