As of mid-day June 2nd, the Planetary Resources crowdfunding campaign for a publicly accessible space telescope (see earlier post here) has reached over $650k and nearly 6700 backers in just 4 days in pursuit of its $1M goal: ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone by Planetary Resources — Kickstarter.
Hank Green, who participated in the webcasts last week that introduced the campaign, has this video about the project:
Icarus Interstellar is a “non-profit organization dedicated to achieving interstellar spaceflight by the end of the century”. They have organized a Kickstarter campaign to support a meeting this summer to discuss the gamut of issues related to deep space and interstellar spaceflight:
Imagine collectively experiencing the progressive thoughts and unencumbered designs of the world’s leading spacecraft designers, engineers, and astro-theorists. Picture for a moment, attending a forum where scientists, physicists, engineers, researchers, urban designers, representatives from international space programs and present-day commercial space operators, as well as popular and well-known interstellar speakers and space journalists share their visions for how the future of spaceflight and exploration may unfold.
This is the vision behind the Icarus Interstellar Starship Congress, to be held August 15-18, 2013, in Dallas, Texas. The aim is to bring together the interstellar community to foster discussion surrounding the development of deep space exploration within the next several decades, and how we may move humanity toward becoming an interstellar civilization.
More at Icarus Interstellar – Starship Congress 2013 Summit by Steve Summerford — Kickstarter.
Update June.3.13: I forgot to post their video:
A look at three space movies coming out this summer: Futures imperfect – The Space Review
Copenhagen Suborbitals is moving into a big new space to work on their big new rocket: Copenhagen Suborbitals: We are going to look like SpaceX – ink.dk (Google Translate)
“The hangar at Refshaleøen has become too small for rocket builders Copenhagen Suborbitals. Now there must be room for really big rockets”
I have previously highlighted the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover LEGO model designed by Stephen Pakbaz. I see that his website now has some new models listed on his page at the Rebrickable.com. These include a Descent Stage for the MSL and the Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo spacecraft.
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