IF WE NEVER SEARCH,
THE CHANCE OF SUCCESS
WILL BE ZERO.
The search for extraterrestrial . . . resources
Telemetric Tools aboard every probe in the swarm allow us to identify materials, and provide a depth of information for partners interested in mining or studying extraterrestrial novel materials for novel scientific insights.
A Martian (or lunar) advance team
When you want to go somewhere specific, it’s important to have a GPS-like guidance. As humanity intends to explore resources on other planets, Copernicus can lay the groundwork for the needed positioning, navigation, and timing infrastructure in space.
Life sciences, solar system edition
Our extremophile probes can go deep into the planets and moons we want to, on the search for life of any form. For example, Saturn’s moon Enceladus has plumes of water vapor coming from the cracks in the ice. That is a recipe for life here on Earth, is it on Enceladus?
Renting space & time in time & space
For researchers or other partners without access to instruments or capabilities in space, we can offer our network and infrastructure for their priorities or missions.
Looking for traces of life & new technological insights
Our goal is to detect and analyze any traces and forms of extraterrestrial life as well as to discover and analyze astro-archeological artifacts to allow for potential technological revolutions on Earth.
Cislunar Infrastructure
In development is an extra-orbital positioning, navigation, and timing infrastructure that will allow researchers to communicate with the lunar poles and far side of the moon which are unreachable with current communication platforms.
Diagram: A network of satellites placed in halo orbits (orange) around the Earth-Moon L1 and L2 Lagrange points (red), as well as in lunar orbit (green), provide key navigation, timing and telemetry signals for spacecraft in cislunar space (white) and surface operations on the lunarsurface (yellow), enabling autonomous spacecraft operations like orbital maneuvers, dockings and precision landings on the lunar surface. The availability of this infrastructure will dramatically enhance technical capabilities, lower barriers to entry and reduce costs for all spacecraft operators.
Our platform will have a broad range of commercial and scientific applications.
Let’s explore a few.
IMAGINE THE
POSSIBILITIES.
WE ARE.
Senior Management & Advisors
Andrew Rush:
President & CEO
Barbara Burgess:
Chief Administrative Officer (CAO)
Bryan Lyandvert:
American venture capitalist, a prominent investor at MetaProp Ventures, and Managing Partner at T-Bird Capital
Strategic & Scientific Advisory Board (SSAB)
Dimitar Sasselov:
Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University;
Founding Director Harvard Origins of Life Initiative;
Chair SSAB
France Córdova:
President of the Science Philanthropy Alliance;
Former Director of NSF
Giovanni Fazio:
Senior Physicist, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Garry Nolan:
Professor in Pathology at Stanford School of Medicine;
Pioneer in spatial biology
Chris Voigt:
JD, senior marketing executive;
Former VP of Marketing Development at the International Olympic Committee
John Sutherland:
Group Leader at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College; visiting Professor at Harvard
George Church:
Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School
Core Faculty Wyss Institute
Paul Davies:
Professor/Director of Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University
Zac Manchester:
Assistant Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University;
Pioneer of gram-scale ChipSats
Cumrun Vafa:
Professor in the Harvard Physics Department;
World-leading authority in string theory and its applications to astrophysics
Stephen Wolfram:
Creator of Mathematica, Wolfram | Alpha and Wolfram Language Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research
Dr. Pete Worden
(Brig. Gen., USAF, Ret., PhD)
Director of NASA’s Ames Research Center from May 2006 until March 2015. He has held several positions in the United States Air Force and was research professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
“I am truly honored to join the Copernicus Board. I’m looking forward to searching for life throughout our solar system and expanding our reach into the Galaxy.”
Board of Directors
Richard Stein
Corporate attorney who has represented a variety of life science companies and other corporate and nonprofit entities during his 45 years of legal practice.
“It is an honor to serve on the Board of the visionary Copernicus Space Corporation. I look forward to working with Avi, Frank and Pete on the important mission and strategic plans of Copernicus.”
Abraham (Avi) Loeb
is the Frank B. Baird Jr Professor of Science at Harvard University and a New York Times bestselling author. Avi Loeb is the head of the Galileo Project, founding director of Harvard University’s — Black Hole Initiative, director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University (2011-2020).
Founders
Frank H. Laukien
is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR). As of January 2021, he has also been appointed as a Visiting Scholar in the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative and the Harvard University Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology.
THE
MINDS
A constellation of bold thinkers, visionaries, innovators and boundary-pushers. From astrophysics to life sciences to robotics, we are experts in a diverse array of fields necessary for the future of space exploration.
Our belief is that these technologies can also be responsible for traces of life, raw materials of value and potential astro-archeological remnants in our solar system and our galactic neighborhood, and will eventually expand the reach of terrestrial life, humanity and our scientific and technological legacy throughout the galaxy.
While crewed missions last months, our extremophile fleet will continue their missions for decades, centuries and with the ability to report back to Earth far into the future. And as they say here on Earth, many hands make light work.
DEVELOPING
CAPABILITIES
Distributed positioning, navigation, and timing infrastructure.
Terrain-relative optical navigation that can determine the positions of spacecraft in lunar orbit with high accuracy, reducing reliance on Earth-based radio navigation infrastructure.
Bioprobe technologies.
Autonomous spacecraft orbit maintenance and formation control.
Low-thrust, propellant-free propulsion technologies.
Ultra-small, ultra-low-power measurement and communications capabilities.
High-precision long distance clock synchronization using both laser and radio frequency.
Distributed positioning, navigation and timing infrastructure.
Terrain-relative optical navigation that can determine the positions of spacecraft in lunar orbit with high accuracy, reducing reliance on Earth-based radio navigation infrastructure.
Bioprobe technologies.
Autonomous spacecraft orbit maintenance and formation control.
Low-thrust, propellant-free propulsion technologies.
Ultra-small, ultra-low-power measurement and communications capabilities.
High-precision long distance clock synchronization using both laser and radio frequency.
MEET
THE SWARM
The swarm will be our eyes and ears and so much more wherever we point them. With sensors and communication capabilities, they will be able to talk to us here on Earth and with each other.
We will begin with building infrastructure: We need a “GPS” to provide positioning, navigation and timing around the moon, Mars, Titan, and perhaps even Venus and beyond. This is where we see the utility of the swarm in the near future. Next is going smaller and more autonomous. Miniaturized, autonomous exploration will push the swarm further afield. The next phase is a completely AI-powered swarm, with an eye toward nano- and bio-probe technologies for ultra-long-range exploration.
“If you wanted to know Earth, would you send one probe there? No. Because you’d only learn a little bit about a small part of it, and very little about all of its deserts, and mountains and oceans.”
In an understatement of galactic proportions, human space flight is limited. To achieve humanity’s ambition of unlimited scientific discovery, commercialization of space, and even a multi-planetary existence, we must think differently.
So we are laser-focused on being smaller, smarter and faster. We are building our own network of small space probes able to take us to places we’ve never been, or that would be impossible to go with human-centric exploration strategies. Instead of creating one craft to carry out a mission, we can scale faster – building hundreds and thousands of less expensive craft. Giving us the opportunity to research more, explore further and build out many different capabilities on one platform.
We are not and will not invest in rocket technology or current space platforms — we will partner with them, fully leveraging our rapidly advancing private and public space infrastructure.
A BOLD NEW DIRECTION
“It’s a change in the concept of how to explore space.”
– Dr. Avi Loeb, Co-Founder, Copernicus Space Corp.
With bold thinking and driven by rigorous curiosity, we are
We are on a
building a platform that will deploy a swarm of thousands,
mission to
eventually millions, of miniaturized craft that will push the
disrupt the space
boundaries of what’s possible to discover. Our technologies will
exploration
democratize space exploration giving partners, governments
paradigm
and citizens answers to the universe’s most important questions.
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