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What are cosmic burials? New company offers memorial spaceflights

“Space Beyond is the latest company to offer memorial spaceflight services that involve taking human remains to space. The Florida startup was founded by Ryan Mitchell, an aerospace engineer who worked for NASA and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin.

As advertised on its website, the company allows families to pay to send a “symbolic portion” of cremated remains sealed inside a small satellite known as a cubesat that orbits Earth for years.”

TechCrunch

This startup will send 1,000 people’s ashes to space — affordably — in 2027

“Ryan Mitchell, the founder of a startup called Space Beyond, remembers looking at the night sky while camping at a state park and wondering what he should do next. A manufacturing engineer who worked on NASA’s space shuttle program before spending nearly a decade at Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, Mitchell was considering his options…Those stars in the sky, he thought, seemed closer than ever.”

SpaceNews

Space Beyond lines up 2027 SpaceX launch for low-cost memorial cubesat

“The venture has signed an agreement to use Arrow Science & Technology’s XTERRA XCD deployer to place the spacecraft into sun-synchronous orbit, where it would remain for around five years before reentering Earth’s atmosphere.“

“‘It is extremely challenging to launch anything to space at such a low price,’ Mitchell said. ‘But, at the end of the day, it’s just an engineering challenge to solve, and that’s where we shine.'”

Earlier coverage by SpaceNews:

The business case for resting among the stars