ARKYD：任何人都可以控制的太空望遠鏡
目前ARKYD在 Kickstarter 上啟動了一個眾籌計劃，任何人都可以通過捐獻款項獲得一次遠距離操作太空望遠鏡的機會。操作者隻需要利用自己的電腦、手機等設備就能操作在太空飛行的望遠鏡。該計劃兩天就獲得了50萬美元的資金。
Planetary Resources是一間緻力於開發小行星礦產資源的公司，其制造了一個計劃用於探測小行星資源的小型太空望遠鏡ARKYD。
目前ARKYD在Kickstarter上啟動了一個眾籌計劃，任何人都可以通過捐獻款項獲得一次遠距離操作太空望遠鏡的機會。操作者隻需要利用自己的電腦、手機
等設備就能操作在太空飛行的望遠鏡。該計劃兩天就獲得了50萬美元的資金。根據Planetary Resources的策劃，任何人隻要參與了這次的眾籌計劃，就可以在特定的時間段內獲得操作ARKYD的權利。
具體的操作模式是，在分配的時間內，由操作者通過任意使用網頁，手機或者平闆電腦上的應用來控制ARKYD。操作者可自由選擇利用ARKYD做何用途，但通過目前提供的應用，可操作ARKYD執行任務還具有一定的局限。
根據現在Kickstarter上捐贈不同金額的資金，操作者獲得的權限利用ARKYD做的事情大概分成3種：
第一、將自己的照片上傳到ARKYD，然後在自己所分配到的時間段內展示出來，操作者可以在那段時間內控制ARKYD上的輔助攝像頭拍攝自己照片在太空中漂浮的場面。
第二，通過ARKYD上的望遠鏡，利用波長在200nm—1100nm的電磁波對宇宙進行觀測，目前可以觀測太陽係內的星球和小行星帶。
第三、教育機構或博物館可以通過與望遠鏡聯動，然後根據望遠鏡拍攝的景象開展相關課程。而值得一提的是，已經有一個以ARKYD為主題的展覽正在籌備中。
這是世界上第一個提供給大眾控制的太空望遠鏡，有興趣的讀者可以嚐試一下，讓自己具有紀念價值的照片在太空中飄蕩，並「再次」拍照留念。
ARKYD Space Telescope project
The first publicly accessible
space telescope! Take amazing photos of space or have your photo displayed above the Earth.
Since the formation of
Planetary Resources, our primary goal has been to build technology enabling us to prospect and mine
asteroids. We've spent the last year making great leaps in the development of these technologies. These advancements have presented us with the opportunity to engage in another passion of our team:
The ARKYD is a
technologically advanced, orbiting space telescope that will be controlled by YOU, the crowd, through your pledges and community involvement! You can even direct your telescope time to non-profit science centers and universities for use in your communities!
Just think about the true impact of this endeavor for a moment. Together we can provide access to technology that costs tens of millions of dollars into the hands of students, scientists and a new generation of explorers, who will use it in ways we can’t even fathom yet!
The ARKYD 100 Space Telescope A commercial space telescope within reach of the private citizen ( ARKYD100 太空望遠鏡的私人公民商業太空望遠鏡 )
The ARKYD 100 Space Telescope is Planetary Resources’ first Arkyd Series 100 product. It will provide the company with the core spacecraft technologies necessary for asteroid prospecting while creating the first space telescope within reach of the private citizen. The ARKYD contains the critical structures, avionics, attitude determination and control, and instrumentation that enable low-cost asteroid exploration.
The ARKYD 100 Space Telescope provides spectacular views of the
Earth’s surface and deep space, including the rich, virtually unexplored areas between our planet and the Sun. Central to its configuration and functionality is a precision imaging system. With arc-second resolution, the ARKYD 100 spacecraft camera will provide detailed celestial and Earth observations where you want them, and when you want them. The ARKYD 100 is capable of surveying for
near-Earth asteroids during one orbit, then be retasked for rain forest observation on the next. The possibilities for utility and engagement are only limited by the imagination of the user.
Planetary Resources is currently developing the ARKYD 100 Space Telescope for spaceflight in the near future, and is proud to have it as its first product offering to the public. If you have interest in the ARKYD 100, or in other Planetary Resources offerings, please contact us.
ARKYD SERIES 200 - INTERCEPTOR
Adding propulsion capabilities and additional scientific instrumentation to the ARKYD 100 Space Telescope enables an
Earth-crossing asteroid Interceptor mission. Several undiscovered asteroids are seen for the first time as they routinely cross through Earth’s neighborhood. By hitching a ride with a launched satellite headed for a geostationary orbit, Interceptor will be well positioned to fly-by and collect data on these new targets of opportunity.
Two or more Interceptors can work together as a team to potentially identify, track and fly-by the asteroids that travel between the Earth and our
Moon. The closest encounters may result in a planned spacecraft “intercept,” providing the highest-resolution data, similar to how government efforts first explored the Moon with the
Ranger missions (1961-65) and later with the
Deep Impact mission at Comet 9P/Tempel (2005).
These Interceptor missions will allow Planetary Resources to quickly acquire data on several near-Earth asteroids. ( 這些攔截衛星任務將允許，快速獲取一些近地小行星上的行星資源數據。)
註：ARKYD 是快速獲取一些近地小行星上的行星資源數據之衛星計劃，將取得近地小行星上的特殊資源數據。
