The Kommunity Spaceflight Initiative (KSI)

[Project Thoth]

Hello I'm the project manager of the Kommunity Spaceflight Initiative.

Me and some multinational engineers and scientists are attempting to put the first entirely nonâ€Âgovernmental satellite in orbit around the Moon – this CubeSat being christened “Lunar Imaging Satellite 1,†or LISâ€Â1 for short. Our plan is to raise enough money to hitch a ride aboard the SpaceX Falcon Heavy carrying the Astrobotic Griffin Lander to the Moon (October 2015) and once in orbit, we would begin our mission taking photos of the Moon's surface for possible future landing sites and photos of both the Apollo 11 and 17 landing sites.

​(Some Early Modeling Work)

We have a great team working hard to meet certain dates, but we can always use more hands. We're currently going through the design phase and recruitment drive. We have a subreddit and a website where people can stay up to date on what we're currently doing and our other secret side projects we also have a weekly public IRC meeting that anyone can sit in on and voice their opinions. Our current plan is to finish the designs and calculations, then move onto public funding and construction and then transportation to Astrobotic to be loaded onto the lander. I know there isn't a lot to show with most of the work done on paper and modeling, but we are putting together a plan to put the CubeSat into production.

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[skykooler]

Do we need any sort of degree to help with this project?

[Project Thoth]

No you do not we have everyone from professionals to students.

[MrOnak]

Hi there, just wanted to point you to the 4M mission by LuxSpace with completed recently. http://www.luxspace.lu/index.php/News/items/luxspace-announced-4m-mission-completed.html and http://moon.luxspace.lu/

At first I thought they beat you to being the first non-gov Lunar orbiter but they actually did a slingshot and are back in orbit around earth so that slot is still open . Good information on radiation levels there by the way.