NASA, through its Division of Educational Affairs, was the first SpaceArc partner and came onboard in 1988. Assisting SpaceArc in developing an educational teacher’s guide and student materials, NASA also distributed classroom participation kits through their 41 national teacher resource centers. Marrying science and technology with the humanities captured NASA’s attention. In turn, NASA’s international acclaim helped attract interest from other industry leaders and educators.

In SpaceArc’s pursuit of a launch into geostationary orbit, DirecTV generously allocated the usage of 7 pounds of payload weight on its nearly completed DirecTV2 satellite to accommodate the archival container. DirecTV’s contribution was considerable in light of the fact that the SpaceArc payload integration occurred in the latter stages of spacecraft construction. Costs of modifying the spacecraft were borne by DirecTV/Hughes as were the costs of pre-flight tests incurred to ensure flight worthiness and integrity of materials.

Their public relations department was instrumental in raising international awareness about the SpaceArc program.

The SpaceArc archive is stored on 35 mm optical tape and required a custom hub and reel for the proper winding and storage of the archival tape. Creo products designed, constructed and donated this spaceflight-worthy custom reel. Creo was also instrumental in raising general awareness about SpaceArc through industry publications and general media.

Educational Testing Services, world-premier image scanning and mass storage data facility, successfully undertook the challenge of receiving and scanning the 47,000 pages of history and indexed them according to theme and format for later retrieval. This endeavor required ETS to develop specialized software and mass data storage technology.

Lockheed Martin, previously known as Martin Marietta, manufacturer of the Atlas Centaur vehicle, launched the SpaceArc archive capsule into space aboard the DirecTV2 satellite that was successfully parked in geostationary orbit.

Imperial Chemical Industries donated the optical tape on which the SpaceArc archive is recorded. ICI also underwrote the cost of 6,000 students to participate in SpaceArc in the United Kingdom.

Space Systems Loral, formerly Ford Aerospace, signed on for the daunting challenge of designing and building the hermetically sealed space flight-worthy archive capsule. Extensive engineering and testing were employed in the development of this one-of-a-kind example of space hardware. SSL was also instrumental in involving the schools in the San Francisco area as well as communicating the SpaceArc story throughout their industry.

Voice of America broadcasted daily an invitation to participate in SpaceArc into the then Soviet Union. VOA devoted 10 minutes per day on the SpaceArc story for two years. As a result, over 2,000 Soviet Union citizens were supplied with participation kits courtesy of VOA.

International Space Year Consortium was instrumental in introducing SpaceArc to numerous private and governmental organizations that assisted in opening doors for SpaceArc. They additionally were highly effective in communicating the SpaceArc program to the public on a global level.

World Space Foundation is a research organization focusing on the study of asteroids and solar sail development. President Robert Staehle was responsible for introducing SpaceArc to Hughes DirecTV and was highly instrumental in securing our launch opportunity with DirecTV.

SteamTeam.com, specializing in high end website & database development, as well as streaming video media, is responsible for the development, design and supervision of the official SpaceArc website and online archive system.

The Friendly Home in partnership with SpaceArc developed programs and activities that brought young people and their senior residents together for an intergenerational exchange of life stories and life lessons. The model developed at the Friendly Home was then distributed and used by hundreds of other long-term care facilities throughout the U.S.

Canada Centre for Remote Sensing utilized highly specialized optical writing and reading technologies to create high resolution photographs of planet Earth for environmental impact studies. One of only three organizations in the world who owned and operated Creo-drive image management systems, CCRS graciously donated the creation of specific software for writing the SpaceArc archive onto optical tape.

British Broadcasting Company broadcasted the SpaceArc story on after-school television that resulted in participation of thousands of young people.

Industry leader VocalNet created the telephonic interface for SpaceArc
participation. Through their technology participants can call a toll free
number and leave their message to posterity and have their message
accessible for others to hear on the SpaceArc website. VocalNet is a
Rochester, NY based provider of hosted and managed IP telephony services, and offers integrated voice and data solutions nationwide.

The Science Museum of London sponsored and hosted a SpaceArc exhibit for two years that featured a kiosk of computer screens that scrolled through the 47,000 pages of personal history housed in the SpaceArc archive. The Science Museum of London was also instrumental in communicating SpaceArc in the classroom to schools throughout the U.K.