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The Planetary Resources<\/a> Kickstarter\u00a0 campaign to fund the ARKYD public space telescope<\/a> ended this evening with 17,612 backers pledging $1,505,276 towards the original goal of $1,000,000. Richard Branson is adding another $100k.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to the PRI team on a very successful crowdfunding effort and a great public participation project that will be active for many years.<\/p>\n

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The Planetary Resources Kickstarter\u00a0 campaign to fund the ARKYD public space telescope ended this evening with 17,612 backers pledging $1,505,276 towards the original goal of $1,000,000. Richard Branson is adding another $100k. Congratulations to the PRI team on a very successful crowdfunding effort and a great public participation project that will be active for many … Continue reading Planetary Resources exceeds $1.5M for Arkyd space telescope Kickstarter<\/span> →<\/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":[12,22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-education","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-O6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2672,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2672","url_meta":{"origin":3106,"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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