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May 29) that it would build and launch a space telescope for public use if it could raise at least $1 million in 33 days.

The telescope will be a twin copy of the Arkyd spacecraft the company is developing to detect, track and study asteroids in preparation for its mining mission

A test version of the spacecraft is set for its maiden trial flight in April 2014, while the crowdfunded model would launch in early 2015

public backers would use it to study celestial objects of their choice

also have the option of sponsoring research projects at schools, universities or museums that could use the instrument.

The telescope will also take

self portraits that show the telescope in orbit, with a user-submitted photo displayed on the instrument's screen

A camera mounted on the hull of the spacecraft will snap the photo.

Already more than 200 backers have ordered selfies for $25 and above.

But if the crowdfunding campaign fails to reach its $1 million goal by June 30, the company will receive none of the money it has raised

Planetary Resources, Bellevue, Wash., began a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign May 29 seeking to raise at least $1 million by June 30

14,919 space selfies, according data from Kickstarter

Kicktraq.com, shows that Planetary Resources raised an average of $45,614 a day, with the 17,614 donors contributing an average of $85 each

investigate motions of and mechanisms operating in the plasma sheets

continue the investigation of cosmic rays and solar flare emissions in the interplanetary region near 1 AU

Second mission: International Cometary Explorer

On June 10, 1982, after completing its original mission, ISEE-3 was repurposed. It was renamed the International Cometary Explorer (ICE)

The primary scientific objective of ICE was to study the interaction between the solar wind and a cometary atmosphere

a series of lunar orbits over the next 15 months. Its last and closest pass over the Moon, on December 22, 1983, was a mere 119.4 km above the Moon's surface. By the beginning of 1984, ICE was in heliocentric orbit

Giacobini-Zinner encounter

on a trajectory intercepting that of Comet Giacobini-Zinner.

On 11 September 1985, the craft passed through the plasma tail of Comet Giacobini-Zinner

ICE carried no cameras. It instead carried instruments for measurements of energetic particles, waves, plasmas, and fields

Halley encounter

transited between the Sun and Comet Halley in late March 1986, when other spacecraft

were in the vicinity of Comet Halley

ICE flew through the tail

Heliospheric mission

mission was approved by NASA in 1991

consisting of investigations of coronal mass ejections in coordination with ground-based observations

End of mission

On May 5, 1997, NASA ended the ICE mission, and ordered the probe shut down, with only a carrier signal left operating

Further contact

In 1999, NASA made brief contact with ICE to verify its carrier signal. On September 18, 2008

NASA, with the help of KinetX, located ICE using the Deep Space Network after discovering that it had not been powered off after the 1999 contact

status check revealed that all but one of its 13 experiments were still functioning, and it still has enough propellant

Reboot effort

A team webpage said, "We intend to contact the ISEE-3 (International Sun-Earth Explorer) spacecraft, command it to fire its engine and enter an orbit near Earth, and then resume its original mission...If we are successful we intend to facilitate the sharing and interpretation of all of the new data ISEE-3 sends back via crowd sourcing."

Sometime after NASA's interest in the ICE waned

A team of engineers, programmers, and scientists

realized that the spacecraft might be steered to pass close to another comet

began to study the feasibility and challenges involved

On May 15, 2014, the project reached its crowdfunding goal

which will cover the costs of writing the software to communicate with the probe, searching through the NASA archives for the information needed to control the spacecraft, and buying time on the dish antennas

The project then set a 'stretch' goal of $150,000

The project members are working on deadline: if they get the spacecraft to change its orbit by late May or early June 2014, it can use the Moon's gravity to get back into a useful halo orbit.

Earlier in 2014, officials with the Goddard Space Flight Center had said that the Deep Space Network equipment necessary to transmit signals to the spacecraft had been decommissioned in 1999, and that replacing it was not economically feasible

oject members obtained the needed hardware (power amplifier, modulator/demodulator[12]), and installed it on the 305-meter Arecibo dish antenna on May 19, 2014

Although NASA is not funding the project, it made advisors available and gave approval to try to establish contact

On May 21, 2014, NASA announced that it had signed a Non-Reimbursable Space Act Agreement with the ISEE-3 Reboot Project

"This is the first time NASA has worked such an agreement for use of a spacecraft the agency is no longer using or ever planned to use again," officials said

It took 20 days to raise the $1 million.

monitor alpha (resting state) and beta (active state) brainwaves

converted to a signal that is broadcast, via Bluetooth technology, to the user's smartphone

claims that Muse can be used to learn new ways to relax, recognize lapses in concentration, build self-confidence, and gain more control of one's thoughts, overall

app includes a series of lessons and exercises designed to teach the user how to manipulate brain waves using visual feedback

If the company can raise $2 million — double its original goal — it promises to equip the Arkyd telescope to look at star systems for exoplanets

partnering with exoplanet researchers at MIT [the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Arkyd would use two methods to hunt down planets

Transiting, or seeing the dip in a star’s brightness when a planet passes in front of it;

Gravitational microlensing, or finding planets by measuring how the gravity of the star (and its planets) distorts light from stars and galaxies behind

If it can raise $1.3 million, Planetary Resources proposes to build a ground station at an undisclosed “educational partner” that would double the download speed of data from the orbiting observatory

Two more stretch goals will be revealed if Arkyd receives 11,000 backers and 15,000 backers