Проект Planetary Resources, Inc.

[Alien3]

"Планетрарные ресурсы" собирают средства на телескоп Arkyd с помощью краудфандинговой платформы
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1458134548/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0?utm_campaign=51a39adbfeeda800020002e8&utm_content=51a62906f493af0002000297&utm_medium=linksy&utm_source=twitter

[SFN]

[SFN]

Какую донацию нкжно сделать чтобы в телескоп попасть?

[pkl]

http://compulenta.computerra.ru/universe/astronomy/10007020/

Вот и эти тоже. Деньги собирают. А почему бы Валерию не подкинуть им деньжат?

[Bizonich]

pkl пишет:
Вот и эти тоже. Деньги собирают.

Во как. За месяц смогут отбить 850.000 долларов.

[SFN]

Они на миллион хотят Энергию купить?

[G.K.]

SFN пишет:
Они на миллион хотят Энергию купить?

 история зацикливается.. В конце 90-ых или начале 2000-ых был фильм "астероиды, смертельный удар", там то же к астероиду на Энергии лететь хотели...

[SFN]

Решения о РН СТК еще не объявляли, а они уже хотят телескопы на них пускать. 7000 штук за 1 раз?  

[Valerij]

3D Systems and Planetary Resources Announce Investment and Collaboration

Innovative collaboration will transform the manufacturing of asteroid prospecting spacecraft

ROCK HILL, South Carolina, June 26, 2013 – 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) and Planetary Resources, Inc. today announced that 3D Systems has joined Planetary Resources' core group of investors and will be a collaborative partner in assisting Planetary Resources to develop and manufacture components of its ARKYD Series of spacecraft using its advanced 3D printing and digital manufacturing solutions.

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Planetary Resources already has multiple contracts to develop miniaturized and responsive technologies with far-reaching applications to space assessment, accessibility and resource recovery with a primary goal to mine near-Earth asteroids for raw materials, ranging from elements used in rocket fuel to precious metals, through the development of innovative and cost-effective robotic exploration technologies. The companies see additive manufacturing technologies as enabling to the development of future space infrastructure.

"We are excited to work very closely with Planetary Resources' engineering team to use advanced 3D printing and manufacturing technologies to increase functionality while decreasing the cost of their ARKYD spacecraft," said Avi Reichental, Chief Executive Officer, 3D Systems. "In success, we will create the smartphone of spacecraft and transform what has been an old-style, labor-intensive process, into something very scalable and affordable that will democratize access to space, the data collected from space and off-Earth resources for scientists and the public.  We are delighted to join the Planetary Resources team."

Peter H. Diamandis, M.D., Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Planetary Resources, Inc. said, "We are absolutely thrilled to partner with 3D Systems, the world's pioneer and leader in 3D printing and advanced manufacturing, as we pursue our vision to expand the resource base beyond Earth. 3D Systems has a long history of inventing, advancing and democratizing manufacturing – and our vision of mass producing the ARKYD 100, 200 and 300 line will greatly benefit from their thinking and technology."

In connection with this investment, the 3D Systems announced the formation of 3D Systems Ventures, a new investment arm that will identify, seek and manage its seed investments in promising enterprises that will benefit from or be powered by the company's leading technologies. The venture arm will be headed by Hugh Evans from T. Rowe Price who will join 3D Systems as the Vice President Corporate Ventures.

Learn more about the company's printers, parts and software at www.3DSystems.com

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About 3D Systems
   
3D Systems is a leading provider of 3D content-to-print solutions including 3D printers, print materials and on-demand custom parts services for professionals and consumers alike. The company also provides CAD, reverse engineering and inspection software tools and consumer 3D printers, apps and services. Its expertly integrated solutions replace and complement traditional methods and reduce the time and cost of designing new products by printing real parts directly from digital input. These solutions are used to rapidly design, create, communicate, prototype or produce real parts, empowering customers to create and make with confidence.

More information on 3D Systems is available at //www.3DSystems.com
   

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About Planetary Resources, Inc.
   
Planetary Resources, Inc. was founded in 2009 by Eric Anderson and Dr. Peter H. Diamandis. Our vision is to establish a new paradigm for resource utilization that will bring the Solar System within humanity's economic sphere of influence. The company will conduct low-cost robotic space exploration beginning with the ARKYD Series of space missions that will identify the most commercially viable near-Earth asteroids. These initial missions will assist the company in enabling the retrieval of raw materials from these select asteroids, including water, precious metals and more.

Planetary Resources is financed by industry-launching visionaries, three of whom include Google's CEO Larry Page & Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt; and Ross Perot, Jr., Chairman of Hillwood and The Perot Group; who are committed to expanding the world's resource base so humanity can continue to grow and prosper for centuries to come. Some of the company's partners and advisors include the Bechtel Corporation; film maker and explorer James Cameron; former Chief of Staff, United States Air Force General T. Michael Moseley (Ret.); and Sara Seager, Ph.D., Professor of Planetary Science and Physics at MIT. Members of the company's technical staff have worked on every recent U.S. Mars lander including Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity, and include other key non-aerospace and safety-critical disciplines.

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http://www.planetaryresources.com/2013/06/3d-systems-and-planetary-resources-announce-investment-and-collaboration/
   
Это официальное сообщение о том, что компания 3D Systems http://www.3dsystems.com/ которая имеет на Нью-Йо́ркской фо́ндовой би́рже индекс DDD, вошла в официальный пул инвесторов Planetary Resources, Inc. Зачем это нужно 3D Systems? Вообще эта компания считается одним из ведущих производителей 3D принтеров, а это как раз та технология, которая необходима, что бы сделать из материалов, доставленных на близкую к лунной орбиту что-то полезное....

[Alien3]

Компания Planetary Resources собрала на сайте kickstarter.com сумму в $1,505,366 для выведения телескопа ARKYD на орбиту и его обслуживания.


http://www.planetary.org/blogs/bill-nye/arkyd-kickstarter-finale.html
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1458134548/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0

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[PIN]

Valerij пишет:
Зачем это нужно 3D Systems?

Затем, что это PR с минимальными (или нулевыми) затратами.

[Altair]

Мдя...
Пока одни ставят себе цель и ищут пути ее достижения - в сотни раз больше других сидят на форумах и словоблудят на тему "лохотронов" и того "почему это не получится".
С вас кто-нибудь ТРЕБУЕТ вносить свои пожертвования ? Нет? Тогда ваш треп, господа, ни о чем.
Сейчас составляю некий документ, думал, что здесь будет к.-н. реальная информация о состоянии дел по проекту и полезные ссылки. Похоже, зря зашел...

[Back-stabber]

Altair пишет:
С вас кто-нибудь ТРЕБУЕТ вносить свои пожертвования ? Нет? Тогда ваш треп, господа, ни о чем.

Не так давно собирался спустить с лестницы (быстро бегают, сццуки...) двух молодых людей, разносящих по квартирам "энергосберегающие" электрические чайнички со скидкой в 80 процентов. С учётом скидки они правдо выходили впятеро от ларёчной цены, но бабушки они ведь такие бабушки... Так-ли я был и не прав?  :oops:

[Старый]

Altair пишет:
 Похоже, зря зашел...

Золотые слова!

[Valerij]

Старый пишет:

Altair пишет:
 Похоже, зря зашел...

Золотые слова!

Так что же не прислушались?

[Старый]

Valerij пишет:

Старый пишет:

Altair пишет:
 Похоже, зря зашел...

Золотые слова!

Так что же не прислушались?

Он сказал это о себе. И кажется прислушался к собственному мнению.

[Valerij]

Back-stabber пишет:
Не так давно собирался спустить с лестницы (быстро бегают, сццуки...) двух молодых людей, разносящих по квартирам "энергосберегающие" электрические чайнички со скидкой в 80 процентов. С учётом скидки они правдо выходили впятеро от ларёчной цены, но бабушки они ведь такие бабушки... Так-ли я был и не прав?

С последователями Петрика - да, нужно было все же постараться и догнать.

А Планетарные Ресурсы свободное время своего телескопа вполне смогут отдать (практически даром)  студентам и энтузиастам, тут нет большой проблемы. В наземные телескопы давно уже смотрят через инет.

[Старый]

Valerij пишет:
А Планетарные Ресурсы свободное время своего телескопа вполне смогут отдать (практически даром) студентам и энтузиастам, тут нет большой проблемы. В наземные телескопы давно уже смотрят через инет.

Конечно отдадут. Обязательно отдадут. Всенепременнейше отдадут. Телескопа, синхрофазотрона, атомного реактора... Всего отдадут.

[Valerij]

Be an Asteroid Hunter in NASA's First Asteroid Grand Challenge Contest Series
March 10, 2014 RELEASE 14-071
 
NASA's Asteroid Data Hunter contest series will offer $35,000 in awards over the next six months to citizen scientists who develop improved algorithms that can be used to identify asteroids.

This contest series is being conducted in partnership with Planetary Resources Inc. of Bellevue, Wash. The first contest in the series will kick off on March 17. Prior to the kick off, competitors can create an account on the contest series website and learn more about the rules and different phases of the contest series by going to:

http://bit.ly/AsteroidHunters

Managed by the NASA Tournament Lab, the entire contest series runs through August and is the first contest series contributing to the agency's Asteroid Grand Challenge.

"For the past three years, NASA has been learning and advancing the ability to leverage distributed algorithm and coding skills through the NASA Tournament Lab to solve tough problems," said Jason Crusan, NASA Tournament Lab director. "We are now applying our experience with algorithm contests to helping protect the planet fr om asteroid threats through image analysis."

The Asteroid Data Hunter contest series challenges participants to develop significantly improved algorithms to identify asteroids in images captured by ground-based telescopes. The winning solution must increase the detection sensitivity, minimize the number of false positives, ignore imperfections in the data, and run effectively on all computer systems.

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"Protecting the planet from the threat of asteroid impact means first knowing wh ere they are," said Jenn Gustetic, Prizes and Challenges Program executive. "By opening up the search for asteroids, we are harnessing the potential of innovators and makers and citizen scientists everywhere to help solve this global challenge."

Gustetic and Jason Kessler, Grand Challenges Program executive, will host a panel March 10 at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas titled "Are We Smarter than the Dinosaurs?" to talk about how open innovation can meaningfully engage people in discussions on and research into space exploration and help us solve problems of global importance. They will provide an outline of the Asteroid Data Hunter contest series and other efforts to detect asteroid threats, as well as ideas for mitigating these threats.

"Current asteroid detection initiatives are only tracking one percent of the estimated objects that orbit the Sun. We are excited to partner with NASA in this contest to help increase the quantity and knowledge about asteroids that are potential threats, human destinations, or resource rich." said Chris Lewicki, President and Chief Engineer of the asteroid mining company Planetary Resources, Inc. "Applying distributed algorithm and coding skills to the extensive NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey data set will yield important insights into the state of the art in detecting asteroids."

 Through NASA's asteroid initiative, the agency seeks to enhance its ongoing work in the identification and characterization of near-Earth objects for further scientific investigation. This work includes locating potentially hazardous asteroids and identifying those viable for redirection to a stable lunar orbit for future exploration by astronauts. The Asteroid Grand Challenge, one part of the asteroid initiative, expands the agency's efforts beyond traditional boundaries and encourages partnerships and collaboration with a variety of organizations.

The algorithm contests are managed and executed by NASA's Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). CoECI was established at the request of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to advance NASA open innovation efforts and extend that expertise to other federal agencies. CoECI uses the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) for its advanced algorithmic and software development contests. Through its contract with Harvard Business School in association with Harvard's Institute of Quantitative Social Science, NTL uses the topcoder platform to enable a community of more than 600,000 designers, developers and data scientists to create the most innovative, efficient and optimized solutions for specific, real-world challenges faced by NASA.

For more information on NASA's Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/coeci

For more information on Planetary Resources, Inc., visit:

http://www.planetaryresources.com

For more information on NASA's asteroid initiative, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/asteroidinitiative

Sarah Ramsey Headquarters, Washington
 202-358-1694
sarah.ramsey@nasa.gov

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http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/march/be-an-asteroid-hunter-in-nasas-first-asteroid-grand-challenge-contest-series/
 
НАСА объявило конкурс и предложило награду в 35 тысяч долларов разработчикам распределенной системы поиска астероидов на снимках сделанных наземными телескопами.

З.Ы.
По этой ссылке много документов: http://www.nasa.gov/content/asteroid-initiative-related-documents/

[pkl]

И опять НАСА! Что, и эта шарашка без гос. денег загибается? :oops: