Starburst Memorials is currently offering two flight packages:

1) Starburst Memorials Launch Service: $12,500 US
Starburst Memorials Launch Service will launch your full cremains (up to 3kg) into space where they will scatter and drift back down to Earth.

This is the only service on the market today that is capable of launching your full ashes into space. All other services offer to launch only tiny symbolic amounts, and for considerably more money.

The service includes:

• Dedicated Mosquito Launch Vehicle used only for your flight;
• Cremains launching of up to 3000 grams (The average adult's ashes are less then this);
• You may specify the date and time or a special event you wish to be launched on;
• A memorial reading before and during your flight if you wish. All pre-flight, flight, and launch range fees are included in one price. No hidden launch fees;
• You may name your Mosquito Launch vehicle if you wish and have it engraved on the vehicles body or you may have your name and a short message engraved on the vehicle;
• A video tape of your launch and a certificate of flight;
• Your family and friends are always welcome to attend your launch and free live Internet video coverage is available for those who are not able to be attend.

This service will also be available with the Dragonfly Launch Vehicle but with shared launches (multiple customers on one flight) for the same price. This service will be available as soon as The Dragonfly vehicle is operationally certified. The Dragonfly will carry several peoples ashes to satellite altitudes before scattering them. FREE up grading from the Mosquito to the Dragonfly will be available as soon as The Dragonfly is flight certified. Single customer Dragonfly flights will also be available with prices pending.

Flights with Mosquito vehicles are expected to begin in the summer of 2005 and Dragonfly flights about a year later. Packages can be upgraded as orbital launch and other services become available.
And as always your family and friends are welcome to attend your launch.

Our competition charges almost $1000 for 1 gram (that's about the weight of one paper clip).

2) Wayfarer Memorials Launch Package: $500 US
Our Wayfarer Memorials Launch Package is an economy service and will launch and scatter in space, a 100 gram symbolic portion.

The service provides you with a shared Mosquito flight vehicle (several customers to one vehicle) which will carry your ashes to the edge of space where they'll be ejected and scattered at apogee to disperse over a wide area. As your ashes float back down to Earth the heavier particles will land within a hundred kilometers or so of the launch site and the lighter particles may be picked up by the jet stream and carried around the world.

This service includes the following standard features:

• Shared Mosquito launch vehicle for your flight
• The launch of a symbolic 100 gram portion of your cremains
• A memorial reading before your flight, if you wish
• All pre-flight, flight, and launch range fees are included in one price. No hidden launch fees.
• You may have your name engraved on the vehicle's body, if you wish
• A video tape of your launch and a certificate of flight

Your family and friends are always welcome to attend your launch and free live Internet video coverage is available for those who are not able to be attend.

This service is also available with shared flights on the Dragonfly launch vehicle for the same price (this service will be available as soon as the Dragonfly vehicle is operationally certified). The Dragonfly vehicle will ascend to satellite altitudes before scattering your ashes. Free upgrading from the Mosquito to the Dragonfly will be available as soon as the Dragonfly is flight ready.

Flights with Mosquito vehicles are planed to begin in the summer of 2005 and Dragonfly flights about a year later. Packages can be upgraded when orbital launches becomes available.

Click here to purchase either package (Starburst/Wayfarer)

General Starburst Flight Profile
Starburst or Wayfarer flight with a Mosquito vehicle will take about 2 minutes or so to reach an apogee of 80-90 km before your ashes are ejected and scattered. Flights with the Dragonfly vehicle will take about 5 minutes to reach its apogee of 230-250 km before ejection.

After ejection the ashes will float down. As the atmosphere thickens upper atmospheric winds will further disperse the particles. The lighter particles may be supported by these winds and could be carried around the world. Heavier particles will come down nearer to the launch site but the specific dispersal pattern will vary with each launch as atmospheric winds will be blowing in different directions and at different speeds during each launch. Minimal dispersal patterns covering a hundred kilometers or more are expected.

Future Services
Columbiad Launch Services is eagerly working towards a satellite launching system. As soon as this system is operational we will be adding satellite launches to our product line. As well, a launch package to land your ashes on the moon is in the works.