Pocket Spacecraft is offering ordinary people the opportunity to track and personalize their own tiny spacecrafts on a journey to the moon. Pocket Spacecraft is hoping to raise about $440,000 via its Kickstarter campaign to finance a mission that would send small polyimide discs called “Scouts” aboard a larger spacecraft, the Interplanetary CubeSat mothership, into space. Each disc is equipped with solar cells, a metal hoop that acts as an antenna, and sensors and instruments that adhere to its surface to keep it thin and light.
so--essentially we've just created a way to cheaply litter the solar system.
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Pocket Spacecraft Wants to Fly You to the Moon
Posted by: Rachelle Dragani July 2, 2013 09:28 AMPocket Spacecraft is offering ordinary people the opportunity to track and personalize their own tiny spacecrafts on a journey to the moon. Pocket Spacecraft is hoping to raise about $440,000 via its Kickstarter campaign to finance a mission that would send small polyimide discs called “Scouts” aboard a larger spacecraft, the Interplanetary CubeSat mothership, into space. Each disc is equipped with solar cells, a metal hoop that acts as an antenna, and sensors and instruments that adhere to its surface to keep it thin and light.