Karan Kunjur
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Co-Founder and CEO @k2spaceco . Speak softly and launch big satellites
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We started the year a team of 4 working out of a WeWork with nothing but PowerPoint slides, hopes and dreams.
We ended the year a team of 25 working out of a 15k sq ft factory with hardware coming off the floor in preparation for our first mission.
What a surreal 2023, looking…
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"Do we really need an unreasonably large dyson sphere on the wall?"
Yes. Yes we do.
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Congrats
@SpaceX
on the successful test mission!
We are on the precipice of launching more mass in a single year than humanity has done to-date.
Excited to be building for this mass abundant future
@K2SpaceCo
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We may need to add a new rule to the flag code. Must be larger than the Dyson Sphere.
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Traction is an incredible thing to see. It shows up in the customers that visit the factory. It shows up in the people that join the team. It shows up in the hardware that comes together.
This traction has helped
@k2psaceco
raise our next round of financing, a $50M Series A,…
Exclusive:
@K2SpaceCo
raised $50 million in an equity round led by
@altcap
, as the developer of monster satellites prepares for its first demonstration mission later this year.
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We've been heads down building at the factory, but it was great to sit down with
@breadfrom
from
@TechCrunch
to share a few updates from the last 6 months
@K2SpaceCo
.
$4.8M in gov contracts, $16M in total capital raised and 3Xing the team (+ a cool pic of our not small sat)
Cost-per-kilogram of mass informs everything from spacecraft design to scientific mission planning. With next-gen launch vehicles like Starship coming online,
@K2SpaceCo
sees a different future on the horizon.
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@peterrhague
Couldn't agree more. This is the mass abundant future we're building for
@K2SpaceCo
.
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Wait the future is larger satellites?
Big constellations no longer necessarily mean small satellites
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The future is bowl cuts and high capability satellites. Neel and I had a blast chatting with
@itsmoislam
and the
@payloadspace
team.
Rockets like
@SpaceX
's Starship are going to bring about a mass abundant future. At
@K2SpaceCo
, we're going to take advantage of these…
Today's Pathfinder pod features
@K2SpaceCo
and sibling cofounders
@KaranKunjur
& Neel Kunjur.
K2 is taking advantage of the anticipated lack of mass constraints in a post-Starship world by designing low-cost, high-capability satellites weighing up to 10 tons.
More below 👇
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This video overflows with awesomeness
@VardaSpace
Here's a video of our capsule ripping through the atmosphere at mach 25, no renders, raw footage:
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Some Saturday inspiration (especially 06:30 to 9:00)
Thanks for making it so much fun to cheer you on
@SpaceX
.
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All over LA, founders are setting up clean rooms and robots to manufacture everything from rocket engine components to portable nuclear fission reactors.
@jdsisteron
and I compiled a list of 50 hard tech companies you should know about in and around LA:
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...
@neelkunjur
's first post on X. Let the big brother pride commence.
Over the past five years I’ve noticed many in the industry misinterpret “The Moore’s Law of Space”.
The interpretation has been too literal: with electronics/chips becoming more capable we should strive to do what we were doing before with less - less mass and smaller satellites…
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Check one off the list of life goals. Thanks to
@acolangelo
and
@JakeOnOrbit
for hosting me on
@offnom
.
TIL our
@K2SpaceCo
giga class satellite may be approaching the space station in terms of array power. We'll have to make up for this dry episode with a few negronis next time.
📅 schedule change notice:
tomorrow's show w/
@KaranKunjur
of
@K2SpaceCo
will be a matinee, so slip a little whiskey in your coffee & join us as we talk about how on earth we'll fill up a starship payload bay
thu 9am pdt / 12pm edt / 16:00 utc
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Guess it’s time to have a real twitter profile. Thanks
@thesheetztweetz
Exclusive – Meet K2 Space, the startup led by brothers Karan & Neel Kunjur, designing and building massive spacecraft:
“With the new launch capabilities of vehicles like Starship, there's actually an interesting opportunity to go the opposite direction.”
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Absolutely epic stuff from
@andrewmccalip
and the team
@VardaSpace
.
They're not only best-in-class at executing, but they make rocks float.
Meissner effect or bust: Day 8.5
We made the rocks
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Incredible news
@Astrolab_Space
! The whole team at
@K2SpaceCo
is cheering you on.
Today we announce a launch agreement with
@SpaceX
- Our FLEX rover is headed to the Moon aboard a Starship landing system as soon as mid-2026.
Once it completes its mission, FLEX will become the largest and most capable rover to ever travel to the 🌕
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This is thread is the reason why Neel and I started K2, full stop. Thanks
@SpaceAbhi
for showing us the way.
A🧵on the new company
@K2SpaceCo
that I am advising, and why I am so bullish on them. I will start using the example of NASA science missions to illustrate.
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@ekriessmann
@K2SpaceCo
@altcap
@neelkunjur
We're thrilled to have you on the team Erik, we're going to do incredible things together!
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For those that say we cant build great things anymore,
@SphereVegas
would like a word. Epic concert, cant wait to see a space opera in here.
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@_K_E_L_S_O_N_
@breadfrom
@TechCrunch
@K2SpaceCo
Huge solar arrays for now. But there is so much stuff happening on the RTG/RPS/Microreactor front, it will be interesting to see what new capabilities come online there
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@SpaceX
@neelkunjur
This is what making the jump from an era of mass constraint to an era of mass abundance looks like
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@_K_E_L_S_O_N_
@thesheetztweetz
@K2SpaceCo
@firstround
@_rcapital_
@BoostVC
@CountdownVC
@CapitalAlso
@sidedoor_vc
@PathbreakerVC
Yes! You get it
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@heskelbalas
@BasedBeffJezos
@K2SpaceCo
Practical steps today could help bring about dyson spheres tomorrow.
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@SpaceX
@neelkunjur
Target build rate sounds insane, but walking through the factory will make you a believer.
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@TheRTest
So at this point, we believe the advantage stems from core engineering vs mass production, which is why the team we're bring together is so important.
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@TheRTest
And oh, by the way, we need to develop the most powerful EP system ever deployed in orbit for a spacecraft of this size. Thankfully we've got Rafael to help with that.
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@_K_E_L_S_O_N_
Let's see, still figuring out footprint and flow. Not surprising, but one of the limiting factors in producing large satellites is how many you can have sitting on the floor in parallel
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@SpaceX
...improve launch performance (200 tons to LEO).
@neelkunjur
I’m going to need to know how many Mega’s we can fit in this stat!
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