29.05.2013 19:05 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Planetary Resources co-founder Peter Diamandis on bringing space exploration to the masses

Picture an optical telescope, a really good optical telescope, and you have to think big. The most powerful consumer-grade models often stand taller than their operators. The grand, institutionally owned ones are hidden beneath giant domes above the clouds on mountaintops. The world's best, the Hubble Space Telescope, is as big as a school bus and sits out in orbit, while its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, will be roughly the size of a Boeing 737. What, then, could a telescope smaller than a trash can possibly do? Quite a lot, as it turns out --

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