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
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History
Elysium Space was founded by Thomas Civeit in 2013.
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.
It will offer a service to launch the ashes of dead people into space aboard a
SpaceX
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Falcon 9
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rocket that will launch from
Vandenberg Air Force Base
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in
California
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, United States. This rocket rideshare will launch ashes into a
Sun-synchronous orbit
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about the Earth. The Earth orbiting ashes will eventually have its orbit decay and return to Earth as a shooting star.
Memorial spacecraft
Elysium Space launches the cremated remains aboard their Elysium Star space mausoleum
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type o ...
satellites, a series of 1U cubesat
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s. 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.Astrobotic
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's Peregrine lunar lander for their lunar mausoleums.[
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Missions
* Lunar missions are yet to be scheduled
* Extrasolar missions are yet to be scheduled
See also
* Celestis, another space burial company
References
External links
* {{Official website, elysiumspace.com
American companies established in 2013
Private spaceflight companies
Space burials
Funeral-related industry