{"id":2593,"date":"2013-06-02T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2013-06-02T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T18:48:09","slug":"scishow-kickstarting-a-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2593","title":{"rendered":"SciShow: Kickstarting a Space Telescope?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of mid-day June 2nd, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetaryresources.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Planetary Resources<\/a> crowdfunding campaign for a publicly accessible space telescope (see <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2560\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post here<\/a>) has reached over $650k and nearly 6700 backers in just 4 days in pursuit of its $1M goal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1458134548\/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0\" target=\"_d\">ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone by Planetary Resources \u2014 Kickstarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hank Green, who participated in the webcasts last week that introduced the campaign, has this video about the project:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wZ37oiqzeFw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of mid-day June 2nd, the\u00a0Planetary 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 \u2014 Kickstarter. Hank Green, who participated in the webcasts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2593\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SciShow: Kickstarting a Space Telescope?!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-space-participation","category-spacecasts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-FP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2672,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2672","url_meta":{"origin":2593,"position":0},"title":"More about the Arkyd space telescope","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0 ARKYD Space Telescope kickstarter campaign has reached nearly 9000 backers and over $810,000 pledged towards their $1,000,000 goal. 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