{"id":18024,"date":"2019-06-12T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T17:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/xplore-and-arch-mission-plan-to-send-humanitys-archives-to-moon-and-beyond\/"},"modified":"2019-06-12T01:02:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T17:02:10","slug":"xplore-and-arch-mission-plan-to-send-humanitys-archives-to-moon-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/xplore-and-arch-mission-plan-to-send-humanitys-archives-to-moon-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Xplore and Arch Mission plan to send humanity\u2019s archives to moon and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_504052\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-504052\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-504052\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/190610-xcraft-630x499.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/190610-xcraft-630x499.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/190610-xcraft.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-504052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist\u2019s conception shows Xcraft, the spacecraft being developed by Xplore for interplanetary missions. (Xplore Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seattle-based Xplore and the Arch Mission Foundation are teaming up on what sounds like \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d: a plan to send the foundation\u2019s Arch Libraries on space odysseys to the moon, Mars, Venus and near-Earth asteroids starting in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The micro-miniaturized compendiums of human knowledge, laser-etched on nickel to preserve the equivalent of 30 million pages of information, are to be attached as payloads to Xplore\u2019s Xcraft spacecraft and sent into deep space on rockets to be named later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur civilization\u2019s knowledge is precious. Helping distribute Arch Libraries in space is an important way to secure this valuable data,\u201d Xplore CEO Jeff Rich said in a news release. \u201cThe Xplore team is proud to host the Lunar Library payload on our missions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Xplore isn\u2019t the only venture to join forces with Arch Mission. The foundation\u2019s first space-flown payload, a digitized version of Isaac Asimov\u2019s Foundation Trilogy, was sent toward the orbit of Mars along with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk\u2019s Tesla Roadster on the maiden launch of SpaceX\u2019s Falcon Heavy rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Arch\u2019s Lunar Library, recording tens of thousands of books as well as the contents of Wikipedia and hundreds of pages\u2019 worth of photos and illustrations, was put on the Israeli-made Beresheet lunar lander \u2014 which crash-landed on the moon in April.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to his role as one of the foundation\u2019s strategic advisers, Rich\u2019s image is included in that library.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is humbling to know my images is likely intact on the moon\u2019s surface,\u201d Rich said. \u201cSoon we will enable everyone to bring their life into space, as millions of individuals can include photos and stories in the Arch Libraries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Lunar Library: Humanity's archives are heading to the moon - TomoNews\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O7mdfWGvGjc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More of the Arch Mission Foundation\u2019s archives are to fly aboard Astrobotic\u2019s Peregrine lander to the moon \u2014 with Microsoft, the University of Washington and Twist Bioscience providing a DNA assist. Other libraries will be sent to the solar system\u2019s gravitational balance points aboard Hypergiant Galactic Systems\u2019 satellites.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the foundation is concerned, that\u2019s just the start.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPartnering with Xplore enables us to continue expanding our Lunar Library, and establish new Arch Libraries throughout our solar system as part of our Billion Year Archive,\u201d said Nova Spivack, the foundation\u2019s co-founder and CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Privately funded Xplore was founded in 2017 by Jeff Rich and Lisa Rich, who are also managing partners of Hemisphere Ventures in Seattle. Hemisphere has invested in more than 200 companies, including space ventures ranging from SpaceX to Vector Launch and Axiom Space.<\/p>\n<p>In emailed responses to GeekWire\u2019s questions, Jeff Rich said the company\u2019s Xcraft spacecraft is due to go through a preliminary design review this summer, with critical design review to follow in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssembly, integration and testing will take place in 2020,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rich said the company was \u201cevaluating all launch opportunities\u201d for missions beyond low Earth orbit, starting in the 2021 time frame.<\/p>\n<p>Xplore\u2019s website says that the company\u2019s mission is \u201cunfettered exploration\u201d of the solar system, with the moon, Mars, Venus and asteroids on the agenda. The site also points to Celestis\u2019 deep-space memorial missions as a potential application.<\/p>\n<p>Will the plans laid by Xplore and the Arch Mission Foundation get off the ground by 2021? That seems ambitious \u2014 but when you consider that the Arch Libraries are designed to last for millennia, what\u2019s a year or two or three?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s conception shows Xcraft, the spacecraft being developed by Xplore for interplanetary missions. (Xplore Illustration) Seattle-based Xplore and the Arch Mission Foundation are teaming up on what sounds like \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d: a plan to send the foundation\u2019s Arch Libraries on space odysseys to the moon, Mars, Venus and near-Earth asteroids starting in 2021. 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