The Pocket Spacecraft plans to let you explore the cosmos from the comfort of your own home. Using a miniscule disc-like ship, you can hitch a ride to the moon and be involved every step of the way. Included with the ship is a smartphone app that lets you track your ship's voyage from design and construction to moon landing.
Pocket Spacecraft is able to provide this amazing feat of personal lunar exploration at a low price by using a mothership to bring everyone's ship to the moon. An 'Interplanetary CubeSat Mothership' will be placed on a commercial rocket where it will be brought into space. After the mothership arrives, the Pocket Spacecraft will be released and photographed. Throughout the entire journey, you will be able to monitor your ship and receive data from the miniature spacecraft's onboard instruments.
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Personal Spacecrafts
- Opportunity for startups to create personalized spacecrafts for individuals and small groups.
- Interplanetary Cubesat Mothership
- Advancement in technology that can allow for greater innovation in low-cost space exploration.
- Smartphone Apps for Space Exploration
- Opportunity for technology companies to create apps that allow consumers to interact with spacecrafts remotely.
Where This Applies
- Space Exploration
- The space exploration industry can leverage the use of low-cost spacecrafts to increase their reach and exploration capabilities.
- Smartphone Technology
- The smartphone industry can further develop their technology to create more apps and software that allow consumers to interact with spacecrafts remotely.
- Transportation
- The transportation industry can take advantage of the development of interplanetary CubeSat motherships to transport other types of cargo and payloads to space at lower costs.
