Comments on: Planetary Resources offers a stretch goal to reinvigorate its crowdfunding campaign http://www.newspacejournal.com/2013/06/12/planetary-resources-offers-a-stretch-goal-to-reinvigorate-its-crowdfunding-campaign/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Calin http://www.newspacejournal.com/2013/06/12/planetary-resources-offers-a-stretch-goal-to-reinvigorate-its-crowdfunding-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-841055 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:35:17 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=2011#comment-841055 Who crowd-funds #ARKYD? the Digital Selfies.
Who sponsors #ARKYD? The grand benefactors and the private astronomers.

Full data and images are available here

]]> By: Space-for-All at HobbySpace » Darwin One, crowdsourcing space exploration + Update on Arkyd Kickstarter http://www.newspacejournal.com/2013/06/12/planetary-resources-offers-a-stretch-goal-to-reinvigorate-its-crowdfunding-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-840941 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:27:33 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=2011#comment-840941 […] Meanwhile, the growth of the Planetary Resources crowd-sourced ARKYD A Space Telescope campaign totals have slowed but they are making a big effort to speed them up again: Planetary Resources offers a stretch goal to reinvigorate its crowdfunding campaign – NewSpace…. […]

]]> By: Doug Mohney http://www.newspacejournal.com/2013/06/12/planetary-resources-offers-a-stretch-goal-to-reinvigorate-its-crowdfunding-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-840826 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:16:15 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=2011#comment-840826 The data from Kicktraq suggests there was significant prep/front-loading/pre-committment of at least $500K.

Buying $5000 of anything is not an impulse buy for most educational institutions or individuals. Longer sales cycle (yes, sales, not a media hype stunt) involved.

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