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The "Pocket Ship" program allows the general public to design, build and launch their private spacecraft. The spaceship is made of polyimide material and is not the same size as a CD. The disk design can act as a small solar sail. Its diameter is less than 80mm and its average thickness is less than 1/20mm. It is equipped with Solar Cells, computers, radio transceivers and other instruments.
All participants can use the Pocket Task Control application to track the entire mission, from designing and manufacturing in the lab to flying in space. In addition, participants can learn about the progress of their mission through blogs, monthly video journals, and quarterly webinars.
Pocket-space ships have a tight schedule and heavy tasks and must raise at least 290,000 pounds (about $440,000) in funds within 60 days through the Kickstarter website. At present, this plan only raises about 7,000 pounds (approximately 10,000 U.S. dollars).
Beijing time on July 3 news, according to foreign media reports, crowdfunding lunar exploration program "pocket spaceship" has been launched. The plan allows the general public to design, build, and launch their private spacecraft, and finally let the spacecraft land on the surface of the moon. The "Pocket Ship" program raises funds through the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. This private spacecraft is not the same size as a CD and is about the same thickness as a piece of paper. Although very small, they have the ability to land on the surface of the moon.
Polyurethanes are used in pocket boats, and both circuits and electronic components can be bent. Its size is less than a CD, and its thickness is equivalent to a piece of paper. Although very small, they have the ability to land on the surface of the moon. Space fans can own a spacecraft for only 99 pounds (about US$150), and they can also add pictures for the spacecraft or information from their favorite social networking sites. Of course, they can also create their own unique designs.
This miniature spacecraft will take the interplanetary cubical satellites into space, and the cubes will be launched with commercial rockets. A few months later, the cube satellite arrived at the moon orbit, then released the pocket ship and landed on the surface of the moon. The pocket ship schedule is tight and the task is heavy. It must raise at least 290,000 pounds (about 440,000 U.S. dollars) in funds within 60 days through the Kickstarter website. At present, this plan only raises about 7,000 pounds (about 10,000 U.S. dollars). There is no doubt that the pocket ship plan can only be successfully implemented through massive public participation. At least 2,000 people are required to participate.
The pocket ship uses an ultra-thin lightweight disc design that acts as a small solar sail that moves in space. This task will take three years from design to final landing. Currently there are two kinds of pocket spacecraft designs, one named "Earth Scout", costing at most 99 pounds, will be released on track, and finally return to Earth atmosphere; the other is called "Lunar Scout" and costs at least 199 pounds. (About $300), it will land on the moon's surface.
Both of these "Scout" spacecraft have been designed with disc-shaped solar sails. They have a diameter of less than 80 mm and an average thickness of less than 1/20 mm. They are equipped with solar cells, computers, radio transceivers and other instruments. The originator of the pocket ship program described it as a low-cost open source massive space exploration program. The "Scout" spacecraft is cheap and small in size and can be put into pockets, so it is called a "pocket ship."
If additional funding is provided, participants can write software and customize shipboard hardware to conduct experiments that they are interested in, such as mapping the solar wind or playing laser shooting games in space. All participants can use the Pocket Task Control application to track the entire mission, from designing and manufacturing in the lab to flying in space. In addition, participants can learn about the progress of their mission through blogs, monthly video journals, and quarterly webinars. During the manufacture of the spacecraft, participants also have access to laboratories, test facilities, and mission control centers.
Scientists, engineers, and designers involved in the pocket ship program come from all over the world. This is not the first time they have cooperated. Since 2009, they have launched 24 open space programs and received support from more than 100 volunteers in 20 countries. These plans are the responsibility of the task control team in Bristol and California. The founder of the pocket ship program was Michael Johnson, who had partnered with him for the first time to launch a space mission fundraising campaign on Kickstarter. The space mission is called "KickSat", allowing anyone to put their own satellites into orbit and then transmit signals from space. Participants pay only $300. Later in 2013, NASA will launch KickSat.
Johnson said: "By financing such missions, the public can make revolutionary changes in space exploration and space science research. By democratizing the exploration of interplanetary space, we can cultivate a generation of young explorers, using the same economic affordability. Ways to explore Mars, Venus and other planets. Our current tools will enable all children to be able to send their own spacecraft into space one day in the future.†Organizers of the Pocket Ship Program hope to implement more ambitious in the future Plan to explore other objects in the Solar System, including Mars, Venus, and asteroids. (xiaowen)
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