The Exploration Company
Cannabis and remains went to the space, but disappeared by returning with Elon Musk’s company. Mission He intended to return the ashes to families here on Earth, but failed to return.
The mission of this Monday that involved the participation of Spacex, a company of billionaire Elon Musk.
The rocket, launched with the right to from Vandenberg’s space base in California, was part of a dedicated shared transport mission, which featured 70 low -terrestry charges. Among the loads were cannabis and human remains samplesnamely the ashes and DNA of 166 people.
One of the highlighted experiences involved the Mayasat-1a biological incubator developed by Genoplant. On board followed more than 980 biological samples, including cannabis seeds and plant matter, provided by the project.
“Cannabis is resilient, multifunctional and biologically complex,” the project on its website, “making it ideal for studying how life adapts to extreme environments like space or mart.”
But after completing the orbits foreseen around the earth, the mission, which should safely return with a lovers near Hawaii, lost communication a few minutes before the loveraccording to the responsible for the NYX Mission Possible capsule.
“The capsule was successfully launched, boosted the nominal charges nominally in orbit, stabilized after the separation with the launcher, re -entered and re -established communication after the blackout. But based on our current knowledge, it found a problem later and we lost communication a few minutes before landing,” the statement shared on LinkedIn.
The first evidence points to a Parachute System Failurewhich caused the capsule to impact the Pacific Ocean at high speed, dispersing its content.
The loss affected, of course, the Celestialcompany responsible for sending the remains to the space: The remains of these people, which the company has promised to return to families, are now lost in the ocean.
Both companies regretted what happened and ensured that they were investigating the failure.
“We are still investigating the causes and we will share more information soon,” added The Exploration Company. “We apologize to all our customers who have entrusted us with their useful loads.”
Celestis has committed, in contacting participants’ families in the coming days. The company expressed hope that families will find some comfort to know that their loved ones participated in a historic mission, orbiting the earth before resting in the immense Pacific, in a kind of traditional sea dispersion ceremony.
“We regret that there was an anomaly during reentry, specifically, the failure of the parachute system, resulting in the impact of the NYX capsule on the Pacific Ocean and the dispersal of its content at sea,” reads in the statement. “As a result of this unforeseen event, we believe we will not be able to recover or return the flight capsules on board. We share the disappointment of our families and express our most sincere gratitude for the confidence deposited.”
“Although we currently believe that we cannot return flight capsules,” he adds, “we hope that families will find a little peace to know that their loved ones were part of a historic trip, they have been thrown into space, orbited the earth and are now resting in the vastness of the Pacific, similar to a traditional and honorable dispersion by sea.”
