Friday, August 30, 2013

Send your own Spacecraft to Moon for just Rs. 20000 ( 199 Pounds)

Did you ever dream about exploring the solar system with your own spacecraft?   Yes it is now finally possible to explore the space using your own spacecraft.

If you are a space enthusiast, you have a unique chance to explore the solar system with your own space craft and that too at a very small cost - Just 199 pounds or Rs.20,000.

A British company is planning to launch thousands of mini spacecrafts on to the Moon.  Each of these spacecrafts can be bought for just 199 pounds and personalized by the sponsor.  A group of scientists, engineers and designers who worked on this concept at some of the world's leading Universities have come together to start this personal interplanetary space age and they have given an opportunity to you to join hands with them to become a space explorer.  So once you join this project, you can personalize your own spacecraft by adding a picture and customizing the message it transmits using just their web browser.  More technical explorers can even customize the software and hardware. The team has developed a website called www.PocketSpacecraft.com.  

The probes to be launched by Pocket Spacecraft, are of the size of a CD and as thin as a paper.  They will be released in June, 2015 over the Earth and over the Moon in June, 2016.

You can watch online at your spacecraft is being built in the lab and loaded into an Interplanetary CubeSat Mothership.    Once they are launched by a commercial rocket, some of the probes will be released into space to flutter to the ground in order to demonstrate landing on a planet with atmosphere (Earth).  The MotherShip will set off to Moon where, when it arrives many months later, the remaining probes will be released, photographed and then land on the Moon to complete the Mission.  

The owners of the probes can monitor the progress through out their own Pocket Mission Control App to track the progress of their Spacecraft as it is designed,built and travels through the space.  The data as it arrives from individual's spacecraft's instruments is relayed from space by a global ground station network direct to the owner's smartphone.  The users also can hold their phone up to the sky and use the augmented reality feature to point out exactly where their spacecraft is.

"As these spacecrafts are very light weight, they are extremely cheaper"  - says Mr. Michael Johnson who is the founder of Pocket Spacecraft.  The Bristol based company hopes to use similar probes elsewhere in the solar system.  If you are able to drop 1000 of these probes on Mars, you can do a planet-wide seismic survey. 

Read more about their current mission for details and join them on an expedition to the moon!

Are you interested  in exploring the space....    If you are interested to take part in the Pocket Spacecraft Mission to the Moon,  please fill up your details and submit.

You can see some details of the Pocket Spacecraft in the image shown below.

 

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