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June 21, 2013 02:05 am GMT
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Space Selfies Are Go! Interactive Orbital Camera Gets Funding
? That's old news. How about taking a picture of yourself in orbit, with the entire Earth as your backdrop?
That will be possible in the next few years, now that the Arkyd Space Telescope has met the $1 million goal on Kickstarter that it . The Arkyd is the brainchild of Planetary Resources, an asteroid mining company launched last year with backing from a handful of Google and Microsoft billionaires.
The Arkyd is set to be launched around 2015, on a mission of hunting for viable asteroids to mine for trillions of dollars in minerals; it already had funding for the launch part
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