{"id":80717,"date":"2013-07-02T22:34:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T14:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/planetary-resources-completes-successful-kickstarter-for-space-telescope\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T22:34:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T14:34:42","slug":"planetary-resources-completes-successful-kickstarter-for-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/planetary-resources-completes-successful-kickstarter-for-space-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Planetary Resources Completes Successful Kickstarter for Space Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"107\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/Arkyd.png\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Artist rendition of the Arkyd telescope.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: Planetary Resources\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[Satellite TODAY 07-02-13]&nbsp;<b>Planetary Resources<\/b>, the asteroid mining company, successfully completed its crowd funding campaign yesterday to launch ARKYD in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Over the course of the 33-day campaign, the company generated support from more than 17,600 backers who pledged $1,505,366 for the cause. This marks the most successful crowd funding effort for a space project and ranks the ARKYD campaign among the top 25 projects in <b>Kickstarter <\/b>history.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8220;We\u2019re excited that the first public-use orbiting space telescope, the ARKYD, is a go for launch. Because of the 17,000+ people who backed this project through our Kickstarter campaign, we\u2019re going to put a new tool for education and exploration into the hands of researchers, students and teachers,&#8221; said Peter H. Diamandis, co-founder and co-chairman of Planetary Resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist rendition of the Arkyd telescope. Image credit: Planetary Resources [Satellite TODAY 07-02-13]&nbsp;Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company, successfully completed its crowd funding campaign yesterday to launch ARKYD in 2015. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Over the course of the 33-day campaign, the company generated support from more than 17,600 backers who pledged $1,505,366 for the cause. This [&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":[],"class_list":["post-80717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80717"}],"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=80717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}