The ARKYD Space Telescope kickstarter campaign has reached nearly 9000 backers and over $810,000 pledged towards their $1,000,000 goal.
Planetary Resources has been posting updates and new videos: ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone by Planetary Resources – Updates — Kickstarter
In this video
Chris Lewicki leads a conversation with a few of the technical staff at Planetary Resources talking about the Kickstarter campaign for a publicly accessible space telescope.
http://youtu.be/d7RrCfMP3OY
Here’s a review from Bruce Irving of several space related apps for the iPad device: iPad Astronomy – Music of the Spheres.
See also his free ebook, written with Andy McSorley, on the Orbiter spacecraft simulation program: Virtual Spaceflight – Go Play in Space
He includes a free presentation about the Orbiter: Go Learn in Space v2 – (pdf, 2.8MB).
This video shows the final student presentation for the SETI Institute’s URSA (Undergraduate Research at the SETI Institute in Astrobiology) program with San Jose State University . See also Undergraduate Research at the SETI Institute in Astrobiology (USRA): a Partnership Between the SETI Institute and San Jose State University-SETI Institute
The latest NASA JPL video update on the Curiosity Rover:
NASA’s Curiosity rover switches to long-distance driving mode as she heads to Mount Sharp.
Al Globus continues his discussion of space settlement in part two of his Moonandback interview: Al Globus – Prognosis for Settlement – Moonandback. He also mentions a a Student Space Settlement Design Contest and gives details for entry.
Find part 1 of his interview here.