{"id":3047,"date":"2013-06-27T20:22:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2013-06-27T20:22:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:22:05","slug":"new-space-kickstarter-pocket-spacecraft-on-a-mission-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3047","title":{"rendered":"New space Kickstarter: Pocket Spacecraft on a Mission to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another space Kickstater getting started: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1677943140\/send-your-own-pocket-spacecraft-on-a-mission-to-th\" target=\"_d\">Send your own Pocket Spacecraft on a Mission to the Moon! by Pocket Spacecraft \u2014 Kickstarter<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1677943140\/send-your-own-pocket-spacecraft-on-a-mission-to-th\/widget\/video.html\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a press release:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sending Your Own Spacecraft to the Moon Just Became a Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Thursday June 27th, 2013: <\/em>A new project to give thousands of people the opportunity to design, build and launch personalised spacecraft and send them to the moon has begun.<\/p>\n<p>Now anyone can become a citizen space explorer and take part in a mission to send their own Pocket Spacecraft to the moon. At a cost of just GBP 99 (~EUR119\/JPY15499\/USD159), explorers who back the project will be able to personalise their own spacecraft by adding a picture or message direct from their favourite social media or game profile or create their own unique design. They can do this from their smartphone or web browser and will be able to monitor progress throughout their mission with their own Pocket Mission Control app. Users will be able to track the progress of their spacecraft as it is designed, built in the lab and travels through space. More technical explorers will be able to write software and even customise the on-board hardware enabling them to conduct their own unique experiments whether mapping the solar wind or playing laser tag &#8211; in space!<\/p>\n<p>Pocket Spacecraft are disks with flexible electronics, smaller than a CD and as thin as a piece of paper, that will be loaded into an Interplanetary CubeSat mothership to hitch a ride into space on a commercial rocket. The mothership will then set off to the moon and when it arrives many months later, the fleet of Pocket Spacecraft will be photographed as they are released to land on the moon to complete their mission.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone can take part in the mission via the crowd-funding site Kickstarter (search for \u2018Pocket Spacecraft\u2018 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/PocketSpacecraft.com\" target=\"_blank\">PocketSpacecraft.com<\/a> ). Since launch in 2009, Kickstarter has raised more than $500 million for various projects from over 3 million individuals. Pocket Spacecraft only needs support from 2000 or more people to allow the mission to go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The global team of scientists, engineers and designers behind Pocket Spacecraft have already created two dozen open space projects for the mission since 2009, supported by more than a hundred volunteers from twenty countries (and counting) led by co-ordinators in Europe (Bristol, UK) and America (Pasadena, CA, USA).<\/p>\n<p>Michael Johnson, founder of Pocket Spacecraft, co-created the first space mission funded on KickStarter (KickSat &#8211; due to be launched by NASA later this year), and influential workshops such as the Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop at MIT, and the Keck Institute for Space Studies Small Satellites: A Revolution in Space Science workshop at Caltech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy backing this mission people will revolutionise space exploration and space science\u201d enthuses Michael. \u201cBy democratising interplanetary space exploration we will create a generation of young explorers who can use the same affordable methods to explore Mars, Venus and beyond. We\u2019re building tools so that one day every child will be able to send their own spacecraft on a robotic field trip in space\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign will run for 60 days and end on August 26, 2013. Detailed information regarding the campaign is available on the KickStarter website:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1677943140\/send-your-own-pocket-spacecraft-on-a-mission-to-th\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1677943140\/send-your-own-pocket-spacecraft-on-a-mission-to-th<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another space Kickstater getting started: Send your own Pocket Spacecraft on a Mission to the Moon! by Pocket Spacecraft \u2014 Kickstarter Here&#8217;s a press release: Sending Your Own Spacecraft to the Moon Just Became a Reality Thursday June 27th, 2013: A new project to give thousands of people the opportunity to design, build and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3047\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New space Kickstarter: Pocket Spacecraft on a Mission to the Moon<\/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":[35,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy-space","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-N9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3839,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3839","url_meta":{"origin":3047,"position":0},"title":"Ares Institute seeks to crowd-fund a solar sail project","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"News from Ares Institute of a\u00a0Kickstarter campaign to fund a lunar solar sail\u00a0: For the first time, a solar sail powered spacecraft will orbit another celestial body. 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