Xplore and the Arch Mission Foundation partner to fly Arch Libraries to space

Xplore and the Arch Mission Foundation reports that the Xplore spacecraft will host specially designed Arch Libraries on its planned missions to the Moon, Mars, Venus and Near-Earth Asteroids starting in 2021.

"Our civilization's knowledge is precious. Helping distribute Arch Libraries in space is an important way to secure this valuable data. The Xplore team is proud to host the Lunar Library payload on our missions," said Jeff Rich, CEO of Xplore.

"These archives provide a personal connection to space," said Jeff Rich. As an Arch Strategic Advisor, Mr. Rich's image was etched into nickel and included on the Arch Lunar Library in 2019.

"It is humbling to know my image is likely intact on the Moon's surface. Soon we will enable everyone to bring their life into space as millions of individuals can include photos and stories in the Arch Libraries."

"We are thrilled to work with Xplore, and join their mission to expand human knowledge through scientific space explorations," said Nova Spivack, Co-founder and CEO of the Arch Mission Foundation.

"Partnering 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. We are thankful to generous partners like Xplore who believe in our mission and are willing to help us achieve it."

The Billion Year Archive is a solar system-wide collection of Arch Libraries that can preserve, connect, and share humanity's knowledge for billions of years, and serve as a backup of planet Earth.

Xplore and the Arch Mission Foundation are enabling new demonstration missions that expand the Billion Year Archive throughout the solar system. Together they will develop technologies that ensure the Arch Library's 30 million pages of contents are detectable and functioning after extended time periods in deep space.

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