Poor man's guide
Our deep dives into our roadmap and how we run low budget deep space missions.
0:00 /0:07 1× With everyone at the bottom of this gravity well called Earth, getting anything into space requires a massive amount of effort and energy. That said, we lucked out! Earth sits in what you might call a Goldilocks gravity well: deep enough to hold onto an
by Teun van den Dries, Oct 01, 2025
0:00 /0:04 1× NASA's Lucy spacecraft is on a 12-year journey in which it will perform flyby encounters with at least 2 main belt and 6 Jupiter trojan asteroids. In November of 2023, one of its targets called 152830 Dinkinesh (we like its nickname Dinky better)
by Teun van den Dries, Jul 25, 2025
💡"Creativity loves constraints, but must be balanced with a healthy disregard for the impossible." Marissa Mayer Welcome to "Poor Man's Guide to Deep Space Missions" – our detailed roadmap for space exploration on a shoestring budget. If you’ve ever gazed up at the stars
by Teun van den Dries, Apr 10, 2025