Tagged: space

April 25, 2014 @ 7:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Aiming to bring a forgotten space probe back to life, masterminds of the Orbiter Image Recovery project Dennis Wingo and Keith Cowing have launched a new crowdfunding project on RocketHub called ISEE-3 Reboot Project. Skycorp, along with Space College and SpaceRef are asking investors to… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 11:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The United States, The Soviet Union, China and… Penn State University? If one crowdfunding campaign can find funding, the above statement might become the list of entities that have made it to the moon. Only three of them would have had a standing army. (Nittany… Read More

December 30, 2013 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

There have been multiple crowdfunding initiatives looking to raise funds for space based technologies or ventures.  From new propulsion techniques to incredible space telescopes, crowdfunding is being used to finance the exploration of space.  There have been multiple crowdfunding campaigns focused on the red-planet of… Read More

December 15, 2013 @ 2:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Indiegogo, Mars One Intends on Establishing Permanent Human Settlement. There have been plenty of fascinating space technology and exploration campaigns crowdfunded on various platforms.  Now we have a Private Mission to Mars which is scheduled to launch in 2018. This project out of… Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 8:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

This is one of the reasons I love crowdfunding.  How cool would it be to help launch a satellite into deep space that is powered by the sun and propelled by water? The CubeSat Ambipolar Thruster or CAT is a space project crowdfunding on Kickstarter now…. Read More

December 5, 2013 @ 10:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

A team of university students have indicated they are evaluating the options and technologies to build and launch a small spacecraft to Mars. The vehicle would carry a unique payload: a two-inch-diameter titanium sphere containing perhaps millions of digital photos, videos, audio files, and text messages from… Read More

November 29, 2013 @ 10:07 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Planetary Resources famously raised over $1.5 million for the ARKYD satellite on Kickstarter. The project plans to eventually launch a publicly-accessible space telescope that will allow anyone to take a picture from space. The campaign hit a handful of stretch goals after raising well over… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 11:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Koichi Wakata released 3 small satellites from the Japanese Robotic Arm today. Pretty exciting to see live. pic.twitter.com/6shSmyqtXi — Mike Hopkins (@AstroIllini) November 19, 2013 Kickstarter has made it to space. In particular, three small satellites were launched into space from the International Space Station… Read More

November 11, 2013 @ 12:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

PCMag | Can Crowdfunding Give the Private Space Race a Boost? PCMag takes a look at the private space race in the context of a company called the LiftPort Group. LiftPort raised over $110,000 on Kickstarter to build a prototype with an eye toward building… Read More

November 3, 2013 @ 11:15 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In a recent episode of the StarTalk Radio Show, famed American astrophysicist and space dreamer Neil deGrasse Tyson addressed the subject of trying to crowdfund a mission to mars. It seems poignant given our recent coverage of whether crowdfunding could change the world by revolutionizing… Read More

October 29, 2013 @ 7:35 am By Charles Luzar  |  

…there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to introduce a new order of things.Political observer, ca. 1500 A.D. The crowdfunding narrative has been dominated by tech startups, manufacturing projects, philanthropic projects, music, film,… Read More

July 28, 2013 @ 1:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on RocketHub, the University of Alabama in Huntsville hopes to develop the technology which will allow astronauts the ability to make round trip excursions to Mars in less than 6 months.  Manned voyages to Jupiter and beyond could also be accomplished within a year…. Read More

July 16, 2013 @ 10:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Could Kickstarter play a major role in kicking off the “personal interplanetary space age?” You could make a coherent argument that it already has, especially considering the visibility garnered by the recently funded ARKYD space telescope project. However, a lesser known predecessor of the ARKYD… Read More

June 30, 2013 @ 10:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Now in the Top 25 Kickstarter Campaigns Ever. The ARKYD Space Telescope which crowdfunded an amazing $325,000 on their first day, has closed their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter with well over their initial $1,000,000 target.  The project called “the first space telescope for everyone” had… Read More

June 27, 2013 @ 2:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Dubbed Crowdfunding’s Final Frontier – Crowdfund Anything Anywhere Site FundRazr Powers PayPal Galactic Site. The crowdfunding innovators at FundRazr are are powering PayPal Galactic’s partnership with SETI Institute to crowdfund life on earth, and search for ET (extraterrestrial) life beyond it. SETI’s Curiosity Movement crowdfunding… Read More

May 30, 2013 @ 8:32 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter is used to fund everything from the unimaginable to the completely absurd, and five projects on our radar today pretty much run that gamut. Here are five projects getting a lot of buzz this week… ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone Planetary Resources is… Read More

May 30, 2013 @ 7:38 am By JD Alois  |  

The Worlds First Crowdfunded Telescope Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company, launched a crowdfunding campaign for a space telescope which will provide unprecedented public access to space and place the most advanced exploration technology into the hands of students, scientists and a new generation of… Read More