Illustration of a small cylindrical spacecraft heading to the moon.
Illustration of a Celestis spacecraft heading to the moon. Credit: CasparStanley / DeviantArt; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

Memorial spaceflights have grown from novelty to a modest and steady business, one that’s carried thousands of loved ones to orbit over the past three decades. Now, a startup founded by a former Blue Origin engineer aims to harness the space industry’s latest advances to take the market mainstream.

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Jason Rainbow writes about satellite telecom, space finance and commercial markets for SpaceNews. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. Previously, he was Group Editor-in-Chief for Finance Information...