SkyCube, the first satellite scheduled to reach orbit sponsored by social media, microfinance, and mobile apps, is just 24 hours from the end of its crowdsourced fundraising campaign on kickstarter.com
The project reached its original funding goal of $82.5K on August 30th, 2012, and is now just a few thousand dollars away from its new goal of $110K to build a second copy of the SkyCube satellite.
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Southern Stars, MacTech let you interact with SkyCube satellite
Southern Stars, the leading provider of mobile applications for amateur astronomy, and MacTech Magazine, the journal for Apple technologies, have jointly announced the world’s first personal, interactive satellite mission.
SkyCube will allow everyone, all over the world, to participate in its launch, “tweet” messages, and obtain pictures of the earth from space. MacTech is the project’s first corporate sponsor.
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While in San Francisco, TUAW and MacTech Magazine teamed up to speak to developers at Apple’s WWDC 2012 about the keynote and how Apple’s new technologies will help them and their customers. In the weeks following the event, we’ll bring you those videos on TUAW, MacTech and MacNews.
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