Saeng Space

Mission Puve: a deep-space probe built in series 🛰️ Design stage, 3 patent applications, no hardware yet. Seeking partners in Thailand 🇹🇭 · from Worms 🇩🇪

[Saeng Space @SaengSpace]

This space probe is looking for partners. 🛰

Designed in Germany: a small deep-space probe built in series. Three patentsfiled, no hardware yet.

Next step: talks in Thailand. Help it on its way: https://t.co/80aC8tC4DR

#MissionPuve #SpaceTech

[Saeng Space @SaengSpace]

Space investors like @spacecapital track where the money in orbit goes.

My honest question: does deep space need probes built in series — 12 per launch — instead of one-offs?

Design stage, 3 patent applications, no hardware yet.

#NewSpace #SpaceTech #DeepSpace

[Saeng Space @SaengSpace]

@ESA_Hera Doing 90% of the burn, checking performance, then finishing in the afternoon is such a sensible way to fly it. Curious how much of the last 20 m/s comes down to optical nav on Didymos itself versus tracking from the ground.

[Saeng Space @SaengSpace]

Next stop: an asteroid. ☄️

By my design calculations, a handful of near-Earth asteroids are within reach of this little probe. Nothing is built yet — that's the next step.

https://t.co/5pT7bMFj19

#Asteroid #DeepSpace #SpaceExploration

[Saeng Space @SaengSpace]

Three computers vote on every decision. If one is wrong, the other two outvote it.

That's the avionics plan for Mission Puve — simple, boring, robust. Boring is good in deep space.

#SpaceTech #Avionics

[Saeng Space @SaengSpace]

@ispace_inc Putting the panels up on a tower makes a lot of sense at the south pole, where the sun barely clears the horizon. Curious how much of the concept work goes into the distribution side — tens of kW only helps if it actually reaches the landers and rovers.

[Saeng Space @SaengSpace]

12 probes. One launch adapter. 🚀

Each one: a ring the size of a car tyre, 138 kg fuelled. Released on a path to the Moon, it reaches lunar orbit within a year — that's my design calculation, not a flight result.

https://t.co/5pT7bMFj19

#NewSpace #Moon #SpaceTech

[Saeng Space @SaengSpace]

@payloadspace @HPE Dialing compute down during radiation spikes is a neat approach. On our probe design we went the other way: three ordinary computers run the whole time and vote, so a flipped bit gets outvoted instead of waited out. Curious to see which approach ages better out there.

[Saeng Space @SaengSpace]

Sunrise over Earth, rendered straight from my design files. 🌅

Mission Puve is a 138 kg deep-space probe designed to be built in series, not as a one-off. Honest status: it's a design. No hardware yet.

All links: https://t.co/5pT7bMELbB

#SpaceTech #DeepSpace

[Saeng Space @SaengSpace]

@SpaceNews_Inc If both stages come home on the next flight, full reuse turns from a goal into an ops routine. The quiet knock-on effect: cheaper high-energy rideshare slots — exactly what small deep-space probes need to stop being one-offs.

[Saeng Space @SaengSpace]

Question for engineers and space nerds:

Why are deep-space probes still built one at a time, each costing tens of millions?

I'm trying to design one that could be built in series. What would you change first? 👇