Planetary Resources Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter

摘要

Planetary Resources surpassed its $1 million crowdfunding goal June 19, green-lighting the asteroid-mining company's plans to deploy a publicly accessible space telescope in 2015. More than 11,000 people pledged at least $10 to the project, which promises to not only capture images of its supporters' selected astronomical targets with the Arkyd space telescope but also photograph their submitted self-portraits on a digital screen mounted on the outside of the small satellite.