{"id":19698,"date":"2013-06-21T21:38:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T13:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/asteroid-mining-company-raises-1m-for-worlds-first-crowdfunded-space-telescope\/"},"modified":"2013-06-21T21:38:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T13:38:11","slug":"asteroid-mining-company-raises-1m-for-worlds-first-crowdfunded-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/asteroid-mining-company-raises-1m-for-worlds-first-crowdfunded-space-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid-mining company raises $1M for world\u2019s first crowdfunded space telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-100063\" alt=\"planetaryarkyd\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/planetaryarkyd.png\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/planetaryarkyd.png 438w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/planetaryarkyd-274x300.png 274w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/planetaryarkyd-200x219.png 200w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/planetaryarkyd-91x100.png 91w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\">It\u2019s official: The world\u2019s first crowdfunded, public use space telescope will be sent into space within two years.<\/p>\n<p>Planetary Resources, the Bellevue-based asteroid-mining company, met its Kickstarter campaign goal of $1 million on Thursday, as more than 12,000 backers pitched in to launch a&nbsp;customized version of the company\u2019s&nbsp;Arkyd-100&nbsp;robot spaceship with an external camera into near-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraising got off to a soaring start, raising more than $100,000 in just two hours. The chance to use a&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;\">special online interface&nbsp;to point the telescope and snap photos of objects in the Solar System was certainly appealing. For<\/span>&nbsp;$25, backers could order a personal image of themselves that Planetary will capture with Earth in the background.<\/p>\n<p>There are still nine days left on the Kickstarter, although it doesn\u2019t seem like Planetary will reach the $2 million stretch goal, which&nbsp;would enable the telescope to hunt for alien planets.<\/p>\n<p>Planetary, founded in 2009, is already backed by some of the&nbsp;biggest names in technology and aerospace&nbsp;and is&nbsp;planning to send spacecraft into orbit to&nbsp;ultimately swarm asteroids to mine natural resources like water and&nbsp;platinum group metals. This&nbsp;public campaign, however, will allow the company to involve the public more directly.<\/p>\n<p>For a Friday morning laugh, here\u2019s the company\u2019s Kickstarter video translated into Klingon. Planetary\u2019s love for Star Wars and Star Trek is not a secret \u2014 the inspiration for naming the Arkyd is from Star Wars, while Brent Spiner&nbsp;(Data from Star Trek) \u2014 helped the company launch the Kickstarter last month.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l9TV3b1UDOg\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Previously on GeekWire: Kickstarter campaign for public space telescope reaches $100K in two hours<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s official: The world\u2019s first crowdfunded, public use space telescope will be sent into space within two years. Planetary Resources, the Bellevue-based asteroid-mining company, met its Kickstarter campaign goal of $1 million on Thursday, as more than 12,000 backers pitched in to launch a&nbsp;customized version of the company\u2019s&nbsp;Arkyd-100&nbsp;robot spaceship with an external camera into near-Earth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4927,5654,5555,499,4820,4631,4905],"class_list":["post-19698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-asteroid-mining","tag-brent-spiner","tag-kickstarter","tag-planet","tag-planetary-resources","tag-star-trek","tag-star-wars"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}