Humanity,
we have a problem.

Our modern civilization, the most technically advanced in human history, has no backup.

If a global catastrophe occurred today, most of our collective knowledge would be gone within a decade, and it would take centuries to re-build.

We have a moral obligation to our ancestors, and to our descendants, to help reduce the time it takes to re-build civilization by building archives that preserve knowledge.

The Arch Mission Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation designed to continuously preserve and disseminate humanity’s most important knowledge across time and space for the benefit of future civilizations.

We build and maintain ultra long-term data storage archives called Arch Libraries (pronounced “Ark”). 

Arch Libraries are the most durable records of human civilization ever built. Using new technologies, they preserve more knowledge for more time, than anything ever created.

Arch Libraries are designed in a variety of form factors to survive on Earth and across our solar system.

Together, the Arch Libraries form the basis for our Billion Year Archive strategy.

It all started from a blog post, written by Nova Spivack in 2015. 

Nick Slavin and Matthew Hoerl joined Nova to co-found the organization, and by 2016 the Arch Mission Foundation was incorporated. Soon after, the team was joined by Michael Paul, Josh Jones-Dilworth, and Robert Jacobson.

In 2018, the first Arch Library was installed in the glove compartment of Elon Musk’s cherry red Tesla and launched into solar orbit on the innagural flight of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy. 

Subsequently, Bruce Ha, Peter Kazansky, Stephen Wolfram, Martin Kunze, Brewster Kahle, Laura Welcher, Armin Ellis, and dozens of other brilliant partners and advisors, joined the mission.

In 2019, an Arch Library dubbed the “Lunar Library” crash-landed on the Moon inside SpaceIL’s Beresheet Lunar Lander.

Today the Arch Mission Foundation has a growing pipeline of missions and initiatives, supported by a vibrant community of leading minds, organizations and contributors.

Our vision is bigger than any one generation — that’s why our organization is designed to be multigenerational and is on the path to become self-sustaining by the end of 2040.

The Arch Mission Foundation exists to:

Educate & Raise Awareness of existential threats to modern civilization and the ephemeral nature of our technology.

Inspire ultra long-term thinking around what knowledge should, and will, exist in tens of thousands of years.

Ensure survival of knowledge and that it is written by the people, for the people.

Knowledge is never complete. Neither will the Arch Mission. 

There will always be more to learn, chronicle and share as our civilization extends to the stars.

We welcome your support and contributions. Join us to preserve, connect and share the memories of our species.