Tagged: space

October 2, 2025 @ 6:49 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Spacecoin announced the successful execution of what it claims is the first blockchain transaction to leave Earth and come back intact via its CTC-0 satellite, marking a major milestone in the development of decentralized satellite internet infrastructure. The transaction, carried out on the Creditcoin… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 12:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SPACE Metaverse has acquired $7 million in capital from a number of tier-one venture funds in order to establish the economic foundation to join various metaverses into “one parallel society.” The funding Included some of the most prominent names in the DeFi and crypto space… Read More

February 27, 2021 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Are you stuck somewhere in outer space with utility bills to settle? Then you need not worry, because the satellites may be able to take care of them. JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) reportedly been testing blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DTL)-powered payments between… Read More

March 13, 2020 @ 9:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TBC Bank Group PLC, a Georgian bank headquartered in Tbilisi, Georgia, announced on March 12, 2020 that it will be expanding its digital banking services to Germany, in order to take advantage of the leading European nation’s progressive environment for new businesses. The Space digital… Read More

December 5, 2019 @ 10:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

SpaceChain, a Singapore-based blockchain community platform, announced on Thursday it has sent its blockchain hardware wallet technology to the International Space Station. The company claims that its tech is considered the first technology demonstration of blockchain hardware on the space station and will be installed… Read More

June 12, 2018 @ 8:30 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The in-space propulsion market is reportedly valued currently $9.2B and growing 22% annually. Tesseract, a higher-performance, cheaper propulsion systems for satellites, avers that we are on the cusp of a massive satellite market that will bring Internet access to every corner of the world, vastly expand… Read More

June 8, 2018 @ 10:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Zero 2 Infinity, a European space transportation company, is now seeking 1 million through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to continue with its growth plan and vision to make space “more accessible” for all.  Founded in 2009, the company reported that it is specialized… Read More

May 10, 2018 @ 11:08 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Right now, overhead, four satellites broadcasting the Bitcoin blockchain drift in the Earth’s atmosphere over North and South America, Africa and Europe. Only East Asia, Australia and Polynesia are still dark. The presence of Bitcoin satellites in the atmosphere was announced August 15th, 2017 by… Read More

June 14, 2017 @ 11:34 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced a new initiative specifically for projects inspired by the Voyager Golden Record. The funding portal shared: “Forty years ago, the Voyager Golden Record soared into space aboard NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe. Curated by Carl Sagan and intended to… Read More

March 1, 2017 @ 4:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cohu Experience Ltd., a Finnish space industry company, launched a crowdfunding campaign on Finnish platform Around in January for its new Space Nation astronaut program. Less than an hour after launch its initiative, the project secured its first million and then finished the round with $3.4 million…. Read More

November 15, 2016 @ 5:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

San Francisco-based science initiative Project Blue has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $1 million for its space photograph telescope. The project hopes to discover a habitable planet orbiting a Sun like star (and perhaps one that is already inhabited). According to the… Read More

October 16, 2015 @ 1:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Friday crowdfunding platform,  RocketHub, announced that one of its projects, Lunar Lion Moon Mission, has successfully hit a funding milestone. Penn State’s Lunar Lion is led by director of Space Systems Initiatives at Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory, Michael Paul. The project’s team is the… Read More

September 2, 2015 @ 4:51 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

A little less than a year after receiving $802,812 on Kickstarter for their New York City Transit Authority Standards Manual project, artists Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth have returned to the crowdfunding platform to raise $158,000 for the Reissue of the 1975 NASA Graphics Standards Manual. While revealing details about the project,… Read More

July 31, 2015 @ 5:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing to gain more support for its Neil Armstrong spacesuit project, the Smithsonian has successfully raised nearly $600,000 on Kickstarter thanks to over 7,500 backers. The project hit the crowdfunding platform last week with a mission to raise $500,000 to bring the famous spacesuit back… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 2:57 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than three days until its Kickstarter comes to an end, famous science educator Bill Nye and The Planetary Society‘s LightSail project has successfully surpassed over $1 million thanks to nearly 20,000 backers. LightSail is described as a citizen-funded project by The Planetary Society, which is self-dubbed… Read More

May 13, 2015 @ 12:59 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hoping his stardom will get a new space project off the ground, television host/science educator, Bill Nye and The Planetary Society are currently seeking to raise $200,000 on Kickstarter for solar sailing spacecraft, LightSail. LightSail is described as a citizen-funded project by The Planetary Society, which… Read More

March 21, 2015 @ 10:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Back in December 2013, Amersfoort, Netherlands company Mars One hit popular crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to raise $400,000 for a Mission Concept Studies by Lockheed Martin and SSTL for the 2018 mission. As previously reported, the concept and structure has been a long time in process.  Co-f0unded by Bas Lansdorp… Read More

December 5, 2014 @ 4:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

London-based Photon Project Ltd. recently launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £395,000 for 20% equity in the company.  Investors may take advantage of the EIS tax relief as well. Photon has developed a “revolutionary architectural structure”, that claims to be the first of… Read More

July 11, 2014 @ 10:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, the ISEE-3 probe made headlines after its engines were turned on for the first time since 1987, thanks to the funds that were raised during the ISEE-3 Reboot Project’s crowdfunding campaign on Rockethub. Unfortunately, the project has encountered a major snag. As previously… Read More

May 14, 2014 @ 7:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Aiming to land the first Israeli spacecraft on the moon, nonprofit organization and leading contestant in the prestigious Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) competition SpaceIL launched its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo Tuesday afternoon. The campaign is designed to not only raise funds for the highly innovative… Read More