Kármán is a small house that flies people to orbit. We fly four guests at a time, with one commander, from a launch site on the Atacama plateau in the north of Chile.
The house is named for the Kármán line, a hundred kilometres up: the altitude at which the air becomes too thin for a wing to generate lift, and where, by convention, space begins. Every voyage crosses it about three and a half minutes after launch.
How we think about a voyage
We do not sell seats; we plan flights. Every voyage is written down as a flight director would write it — altitude, inclination and length — and everything else follows from those three numbers: how many times you will go round, how many sunrises you will see, how far north the orbit reaches and so whether the aurora will ever be on your horizon.
The picture on the front page of this site is drawn the same way. It is not a video. It is the Earth, computed live in your browser: sunlight scattered through the atmosphere by the physics that scatters it, over the ground you would be crossing at that minute of the orbit.