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.
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 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.
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.Elysium Space plans to use Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander for their lunar mausoleums.
Elysium Space is in the early stages of planning for deep-space burials.
Missions
| Mission | Payload | Date | Spacecraft | Launcher | Destination | Result | Notes | |
| ORS-4 | Elysium Star I | 2015 | Elysium Star 1U CubeSat | Super Strypi | Sun-synchronous orbit Reentry shooting star | Failure | Orbit to have decayed in 2 years. Mission failed to reach orbit. | |
| SSO-A | Elysium Star II | 2018 | Elysium Star 1U CubeSat | Falcon 9 | SSO Shooting star | On Orbit | Orbit to decay in 2 years, but satellite remained attached to launcher |
- Lunar missions are yet to be scheduled
- Extrasolar missions are yet to be scheduled