{"id":19730,"date":"2012-06-20T22:27:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T14:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/asteroid-miners-may-launch-their-own-kickstarter-project\/"},"modified":"2012-06-20T22:27:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T14:27:15","slug":"asteroid-miners-may-launch-their-own-kickstarter-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/asteroid-miners-may-launch-their-own-kickstarter-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid miners may launch their own Kickstarter project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JtApCulsEaA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Planetary Resources, the Bellevue-based company that plans to launch robotic spacecraft to mine near-Earth asteroids, doesn\u2019t need extra money,&nbsp;backed by investors including Google\u2019s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, and Ross Perot Jr.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-36393\" title=\"planetaryresources\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/planetaryresources1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"92\">But the company is considering a Kickstarter campaign to get the public more involved in its effort \u2014 offering donors benefits including the ability to control the space telescopes that will search for the asteroids.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Diamandis, one of the co-founders of the company, outlined the idea in a message and video posted online tonight.<\/p>\n<p>He writes, \u201cTo offer&nbsp;you&nbsp;a chance to actually get involved, we\u2019ve been tossing around the idea of adding additional capacity in our production run, and either offering you access to a portion of our of our orbiting spacecraft \u2013 or \u2013 if there\u2019s enough demand, actually build you an additional Space Telescope for your own use,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n<p>He continues, \u201cWe\u2019d probably do this thru a Kickstarter campaign, but we&nbsp;ONLY&nbsp;if there\u2019s enough interest\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Options they\u2019re considering for different pledge levels include&nbsp;a chance to direct the Arkyd-100 Space Telescope to take high-resolution picture of a specific spot on Earth; getting a desktop model of the Arkyd telescope; a half-day at the controls of the telescope (for a much larger pledge, presumably); and a chance to attend the Planetary Resources launch party.<\/p>\n<p>The company is offering a chance to vote on those ideas and offer others in this blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planetary Resources, the Bellevue-based company that plans to launch robotic spacecraft to mine near-Earth asteroids, doesn\u2019t need extra money,&nbsp;backed by investors including Google\u2019s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, and Ross Perot Jr. But the company is considering a Kickstarter campaign to get the public more involved in its effort \u2014 offering donors benefits including the [&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":[5555,4820],"class_list":["post-19730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-kickstarter","tag-planetary-resources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19730"}],"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=19730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}