Asteroid Mining Company Puts Orbital Telescope On Kickstarter
Under Construction Planetary Resources engineers assemble an ARKYD 100 prototype. Planetary Resources on Kickstarter A new crowdfunded space telescope promises ordinary citizens the ability to control the 'scope from Earth. If all goes as planned, you'll soon be able to rent time on a space telescope, funded by individuals over the Internet. Private space company Planetary Resources is looking to crowdfund a telescope that it will then make available to funders, classrooms and visitors to museums such as the Museum of Flight in Seattle. Ordinary folks will be able to take control of the scope to snap cosmic photos, or beam their own images onto the telescope's screen. Planetary Resources is based in Washington state. The company's primary mission is to develop the technology to mine minerals from asteroids, but this space telescope project is intended simply to make space science accessible to more people, according to the project's Kickstarter page. The telescope, called...