Elysium Space

Elysium Space is a space burial company. Burial options the company offers are Earth-orbit and then reentry burnup, lunar burial, and deep-space burial beyond the Solar System. 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
MissionPayloadDateCOSPAR IDLauncherDestinationResultNotes
ORS-4Elysium Star I
1U CubeSat 		2015n/aSuper StrypiSun-synchronous orbit (SSO)
Reentry shooting star		FailureOrbit to have decayed in 2 years. Mission failed to reach orbit.[2][3]
SSO-AElysium Star II
1U CubeSat 		20182018-099CFalcon 9SSO
Shooting star		On OrbitOrbit 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. Debra Werner (16 May 2017). "A cubesat packed with cremated remains slotted for SpaceX rideshare mission". SpaceNews.
  3. Darrell Etherington (16 May 2017). "Elysium Space to launch the first ever 'memorial spacecraft' via SpaceX". Tech Crunch.
  4. Daniel Starkey (20 May 2017). "SpaceX Will Launch Human Remains Later This Year". Geek.com.
  5. Abigail Beall (16 May 2017). "You can now send your loved one's ashes into orbit on a SpaceX rocket". Wired UK.
  6. Tim Reyes (23 August 2015). "Astrobotic Mission One Manifest". Tech Crunch.
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