Storing data and DNA for millions of years as a modern version of Noah's Ark.
Updated: 2023-03-12
Created: 2018-12-07
Status
First missions launched (Voyager Golden Disk, Arch Mission). Spacelife Origin planned, but was cancelled. While space ark is not directly a microgravity application, it benefits tremendously by being away from Earth surface and could be considered NewSpace and being a new business model using space.
Applications
- Storing data for millions of years and more.
- Storing DNA and reproduction cells in space.
- New very long term storage methods for difficult environments.
- Time capsule in space.
- Local data caches throughout Solar System for local Internet.
Why & Solution
One of the key benefits of the Arch Mission Foundation™ is to provide a planetary backup of important human knowledge, that can persist for at least thousands to millions of years, and is not vulnerable to extinction level events on Earth. While we hope that a planetary backup is never needed, it's always wise to have an insurance policy in place. Other than stone, most of our storage media decays rapidly with time. Our own present civilization is increasingly reliant on perishable digital storage media that lasts only around 50 years. Without a concerted effort to backup this knowledge in a form that can survive for millennia it is more likely than not that it will perish. As well as protecting vital knowledge in the future, The Arch Mission Foundation will also serve as an inspiring catalyst for space education and international collaboration and understanding for people living in the present era. We will involve students and educators, as well as the wider public, in helping to contribute to and curate data sets, and to design and distribute Arch™ Libraries.3
The SpaceLife Ark protects your reproduction ‘Seeds-of-Life’ cells in space for the increasing threats that may threaten human life on earth.2
Pioneers 10 and 11, which preceded Voyager, both carried small metal plaques identifying their time and place of origin for the benefit of any other spacefarers that might find them in the distant future. With this example before them, NASA placed a more ambitious message aboard Voyager 1 and 2, a kind of time capsule, intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials. The Voyager message is carried by a phonograph record, a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth.1
Companies
Arch Mission Foundation page at Factories in Space
Archs are being developed with a variety of form factors to survive for long durations in space, as well as on the surfaces of planets, moons and asteroids. The Archs are already the longest-lasting records of human civilization ever created, and possibly that ever will be created. They will last billions of years longer than the Pyramids. They may even last longer than our planet. In a million years the Archs™ may be the only remaining trace of our species and our civilization.
BioServe Space Technologies page at Factories in Space
Flight History
To date, BioServe has designed, manufactured, and operated hundreds of science payloads on over 85 spaceflight missions. Our payloads have flown on six different types of spacecraft (Shuttle, Progress, Soyuz, HTV, Dragon, and Cygnus) and two space stations (Mir and ISS). We are continually developing new space life science research and designing new or updating existing hardware to support that research. This keeps BioServe on the forefront of space life science research.
LifeShip page at Factories in Space
International Space Station
LifeShip's first ever Biobank is being launched to the International Space Station onboard a SpaceX rocket in April 2022. It contains the DNA of 500 species and 2000 humans. Blasting off on a SpaceX rocket along with 4 astronauts from Cape Canaveral. We are on a mission to backup Earth for future generations and spread life to the stars.
Moon
Lonestar Data Holding page at Factories in Space
- Cloud computing startup Lonestar said April 19 it has contracted commercial lunar lander developer Intuitive Machines to deploy a mini proof-of-concept data center on the moon next year.
- The Florida-based venture said its initial hardware is joining IM-2, Intuitive Machines’ second mission to the moon, which aims to take a collection of government and commercial payloads to the lunar south pole aboard its Nova-C lander.
Space Crystals page at Factories in Space
A chance to be immortal by sending your DNA infused crystals to the surface of the moon.
Earthly Solution Risk
Small, because locations in space will be safer in many situations.