Space burial service costs 2,500 USD

The ashes of the deceased will be sent into space by tech billionaire Elon Musk's rocket and orbit for two years.

The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on April 8, 2016. Photo: NASA.

Elysium Space, a funeral company based in San Francisco, USA, on May 17 revealed its plan to send the ashes of the deceased into Earth's orbit using a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to the SpaceX corporation of technology billionaire Elon Musk, CNBC reported yesterday.

With a starting registration price of $2,490, mEach customer will receive a specialized device to store their loved one's ashes before returning them to the company. A Falcon 9 rocket will carry the spacecraft containing the device into orbit.

The spacecraft containing the ashes of the deceased will orbit for two years.Family and friends of the deceased can track the spacecraft's journey using an application running on both iOS and Android operating systems.

After two years, the spacecraft will enter the atmosphere and burn up, shining like a shooting star.According to the companyElysium Space,space burial servicechanging the way we look at death, from being buried "underground" to being in outer space. Up to now, there has been100 customers have signed up for the service, even though SpaceX has not set a date to launch the spacecraft into orbit.

According to VNE