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Let’s go Beyond Atlas.

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✅ Help humanity become a spacefaring civilization.
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Our goal: Explore the solar system.

With our cheap and reliable spacecraft, we will open a door to more exploration of the solar system. If humans are to live in space, it’s not possible to bring all the resources from Earth. We must find them in space. But then it must be much cheaper to explore deep space. With the Beyond Atlas spacecraft, access to deep space will improve dramatically.

The mission: Earth’s mini Moon.

Earth has a second Moon, a mini Moon. It’s really an asteroid, 2016OH3, in orbit around the Sun, but also around Earth. Beyond Atlas will build a spacecraft to explore it. And we hope to give it a better name.

Mission 1

A small, 3U, spacecraft to try propulsion, navigation, communication and also get really close and photograph space debris. Launch Q4 2019.

Mission 2

A larger,12U, spacecraft launched into Medium Earth Orbit and use electric propulsion to escape Earth’s gravity, and fly to our target. Perhaps we will swing by the real Moon on the way if timing allows it.

Crowdfunding

We will together crowdfund Beyond Atlas’ both missions. The crowdfunding will open again in 2021.

The total cost of both missions: $3 million.

Endorsements

Gregg Maryniak

Co-Founder XPRIZE Foundation. Co-Chairman of the Space Track at Singularity University.

Peter Rathsman

CTO of OHB Sweden. Project manager for ESA’s first lunar mission, SMART-1.

Emil Vinterhav

CTO at ÅAC Microtec. MSc in Engineering Physics at LTH.

Jan-Erik Wahlund

Ph.D. Space Physics. Professor at Swedish Institute of Space Physics.

Olle Norberg

Vice Rector for Space at Luleå University of Technology. Director-General of the Swedish National Space Agency between 2009 and 2018.

Karin Nilsdotter

CEO Spaceport Sweden, future astronaut and advisor to the Space Frontier Foundation.

Mathias Sundin

Co-founder & Executive Chairman the Warp Institute. Former Member of Parliament.

Christer Fuglesang

Astronaut with two trips to the International Space Station. Professor of Space Travel, KTH.

Sven Grahn

Space nestor.
Worked with seven Swedish satellite projects.

Team

We have a team of experts who have done these kinds of things before.

Olle Norberg

Vice Rector for Space at Luleå University of Technology. Former Director-General of the Swedish National Space Agency between. Vice Rector for Space at Luleå University of Technology. Director-General of the Swedish National Space Agency between 2009 and 2018. Ph.D. degree from the Umeå University in Sweden is space plasma physics, having worked on several national, ESA, and international space projects at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics. Between 2001 and 2009 he was Head of Esrange Space Center, a center for satellite operations as well as sounding rocket and stratospheric balloon launchings.

Mathias Sundin

Executive Chairman of the Warp Institute, Former Member of Parliament. Mathias is Executive Chairman of the Warp Institute and leads the crowdfunding effort. He is a former Member of Parliament and Deputy Mayor. Mentor and jury member at the XPRIZE Visioneers. Member of the World Frontiers Forum at Harvard & MIT.

Stefan Vesterlund

Space enthusiastic handyman. Worked with airworthiness certification and system engineering for special-mission aircrafts and helicopters. Educated in Space Mission Design and Operations.

Milan Battelino

M.Sc in Astronomy. OHB Sweden. Software engineering on RAMSES (Ground Control System) and AOCS Simulator for Solar Orbiter. Mission analysis for several missions. Mission control and astronomy planning for the satellite Odin.

Robin Larsson

AOCS Specialist, M. Sc. Engineering Physics at KTH. Robin joined SSC in later to OHB. Experience from AOCS development in the satellites: PRISMA, SmallGEO, Electra, and InnoSat. During the PRISMA mission, Robin was responsible for the demonstration of Satellite Autonomous Formation Flying and Proximity Experiments, which included development, implementation, testing as well as execution in orbit.