Copernicus Space Corporation Announces Distinguished and Visionary Strategic & Scientific Advisory Board
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts – December 5, 2022: Copernicus Space Corporation is pleased to announce its Strategic & Scientific Advisory Board (SSAB), including the following distinguished, visionary and pro-active SSAB members:
Dimitar Sasselov, Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University; Founding Director of the
Harvard Origins of Life Initiative; initial Chair of the Copernicus SSAB
- George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School; Faculty Wyss Institute;
Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT; prolific company founder - France Córdova, President of the Science Philanthropy Alliance; former Director of NSF
- Paul Davies, Professor and Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University
- Giovanni Fazio, Senior Physicist, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and Faculty Emeritus, International Space University, Strasbourg
- Zac Manchester, Assistant Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University; pioneer of gram-scale ChipSat spacecraft as founder of KickSat project
- Garry Nolan, Professor in Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine; pioneer in spatial biology; co-founder of numerous LST & DX companies with successful IPOs/exits
- Cumrun Vafa, Professor in the Harvard Physics Department; world-leading authority in string theory and its applications to astrophysics
- Chris Voigt, JD, senior marketing executive, former VP of Marketing Development for International Olympic Committee (IOC) and SVP for Strategic Partnerships at Whoop, Inc.
- Stephen Wolfram, Creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Language; author of A New Kind of Science; originator of Wolfram Physics Project; CEO of Wolfram Research
About Copernicus Space Corporation
Copernicus Space Corporation (“Copernicus”) is a novel space exploration company with astrophysics, space technology and synthetic biology founders, executives and scientific advisors. Copernicus advances a unique space technology platform strategy for scalable and distributed Swarm Exploration™, breaking away from the traditional paradigms of n=1 probes or rovers, crewed space exploration, or sample-return missions. In its solar systems exploration phase, Copernicus is developing semi-autonomous swarms and networks of hundreds or thousands of miniaturized, intelligent in situ probes in search of extant or extinct microbial life, of scientific discoveries and commercial opportunities on interesting planets, moons and asteroids in our solar system. For its future interstellar phase, Copernicus will deploy millions and eventually billions of hybrid nanotechnology and synthetic biology-based space nanoprobes for exploring and seeding our galaxy to prepare humankind and terrestrial life for a multi-planetary future.
Copernicus enables the next generation of space exploration and operations by pioneering everincreasing capabilities in sensors, scientific detectors, artificial intelligence, computing, and robotics. Copernicus products and systems will provide scalable platforms for distributed space exploration, solar system positioning, navigation and timing, security applications, and commercial endeavors. Copernicus-enabled swarm architectures aim to alter the paradigm of space exploration to create more highly scalable, cost effective, redundant, in situ-capable, intelligent and resilient systems.
Copernicus leverages differentiated and disruptive concepts and proprietary, novel technology combinations for next-generation, semi-autonomous exploration strategies. This will lead to a rich IP estate of patents, proprietary code and know-how. Copernicus also fosters ultralong-range thinking in human-directed interstellar exploration, and eventual hybrid nano- and biotechnological seeding of our galaxy. Copernicus leverages AI/ML-driven nanorobots, bioengineering for sensing and replication, as well as biology-derived ‘panspermia’ long-range information transmission.
