Elysium Space

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Elysium Space is a space burial company. Burial options the company offers are Earth-orbit and then reentry burnup, and delivery to the lunar surface. The company was the first to offer burial on the Moon.[1]

History[]

Elysium Space was founded by Thomas Civeit in 2013.[2]

In 2015, a launch aboard a USAF Super Strypi rocket failed to reach orbit. The remains will be reflown in the second launch. The remains were to have orbited for 2 years before reentering and going out in a blaze.[3]

It will offer a service to launch the ashes of dead people into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. This rocket rideshare will launch ashes into a Sun-synchronous orbit about the Earth. The Earth orbiting ashes will eventually have its orbit decay and return to Earth as a shooting star.[3][4]

Memorial spacecraft[]

Elysium Space launches the cremated remains aboard their Elysium Star space mausoleum satellites, a series of 1U cubesats. The Earth-orbiting satellites are designed to remain in space for 2 years before orbital decay brings them back to Earth as a shooting star, burning up in a blazing reentry.[5]

Elysium Space plans to use Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander for their lunar mausoleums.[6]

Elysium Space is in the early stages of planning for deep-space burials.[6]

Missions[]

Mission Payload Date COSPAR ID Launcher Destination Result Notes
ORS-4 Elysium Star I
1U CubeSat 		2015 n/a Super Strypi Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO)
Reentry shooting star		 Failure Orbit to have decayed in 2 years. Mission failed to reach orbit. [2][3]
SSO-A Elysium Star II
1U CubeSat 		2018 2018-099C Falcon 9 SSO
Shooting star		 On Orbit Orbit to decay in 2 years, but satellite remained attached to launcher [2][3][4]
  • Lunar missions are yet to be scheduled
  • Extrasolar missions are yet to be scheduled

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Michal Addady (24 August 2015). "This company is offering the first ever lunar burial". Fortune.
  2. ^ a b c Debra Werner (16 May 2017). "A cubesat packed with cremated remains slotted for SpaceX rideshare mission". SpaceNews.
  3. ^ a b c d Darrell Etherington (16 May 2017). "Elysium Space to launch the first ever 'memorial spacecraft' via SpaceX". Tech Crunch.
  4. ^ a b Daniel Starkey (20 May 2017). "SpaceX Will Launch Human Remains Later This Year". Geek.com. Archived from the original on 11 August 2017. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  5. ^ Abigail Beall (16 May 2017). "You can now send your loved one's ashes into orbit on a SpaceX rocket". Wired UK.
  6. ^ a b Tim Reyes (23 August 2015). "Astrobotic Mission One Manifest". Tech Crunch.

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