I understand a very small part of space burials are going into deep space.
And a good part of them go into suborbital flights.
But are there any space burials sent to graveyard orbits?
Are any space burials being put into geocentric orbit?
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Sign up to join this communityI understand a very small part of space burials are going into deep space.
And a good part of them go into suborbital flights.
But are there any space burials sent to graveyard orbits?
Are any space burials being put into geocentric orbit?
To my knowledge, ashes going to space fall under one of two categories.
So there is no specifically free-floating ashes in space. The vast majority of them return when the upper stage burns up. Most upper stages are either immediately disposed of, or at least placed in an orbit where they will be gone within 20 or so years.
Clyde Tombaugh is in the Kuiper belt but Eugene Shoemaker now orbits the Earth.