OpenExplorer Launches with New Adventures, OpenROV Giveaway
This week the adventure-tracking site OpenExplorer is going live to promote the explorer community, and giving away five OpenROVs to encourage citizen exploration.
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Launching $125,000 into space
With three days still left to go on their crowdfunding campaign, the hackers behind the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project who wanted to recover the ISEE-3 spacecraft and return it operations, have passed their funding goal.
Crowdfunding the Recovery of a Lost Spacecraft
The hackers behind the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project have moved on to a different challenge. Not content with images, this time they want to recover a whole spacecraft. They want to bring the ISEE-3 space probe home to Earth.
Letters from a Young Biologist
Amateur scientists are shaking up mainstream science.
Citizen Science and Exploration: Who Makes the Rules?
The tools for citizen science and exploration are getting good. As they continue to empower amateurs, who makes the rules on what can be done?
Blog from the Sea of Cortez: Useful Science?
In what ways can citizen explorers be useful for science? The tools are getting better, but the methods and techniques aren’t as clear.
Makers in Space
Planetary Resources is Kickstarting a project to send a satellite into orbit that backers will be able to direct themselves.