Company - Lonestar Data Holding (Eayst Noa)
Product/Service
- Classification
- Space Utilities
- Category
- In-Orbit Computing
In-Orbit Data Storage
- Fields
- Moon
Space Arks
- Status
- Development, Launched
- First launch
- 2024
- Partners
- Intuitive Machines
- Cloud computing startup Lonestar said April 19 it has contracted commercial lunar lander developer Intuitive Machines to deploy a mini proof-of-concept data center on the moon next year.
- The Florida-based venture said its initial hardware is joining IM-2, Intuitive Machines’ second mission to the moon, which aims to take a collection of government and commercial payloads to the lunar south pole aboard its Nova-C lander.
- Named after the Manx for "New Moon", the firm is undertaking a regulatory test of digital storage by leveraging the unique properties of the Moon.
- "Eayst Noa envisions a series of data center missions to the Moon, paving the way for a new era in data management and disaster recovery services."
- Working with its US parent company, Lonestar Data Holdings Inc., the company is storing data on board Intuitive Machine’s inaugural mission to serve as a dual test—evaluating both the technical capabilities and legal frameworks surrounding the deployment of data storage solutions in space.
Lonestar Data Makes it to the Moon on IM-1 Lunar Lander, 2023-02-23:
- For Lonestar Data, IM-1 provides a proof-of-concept of its ability to save and restore data from beyond Earth’s orbit. The Florida startup plans to offer off-planet disaster recovery services for commercial customers, with plans to create “a series of increasingly sophisticated data centers on and around the Moon.”
- A key test of their technology took place Monday, when the Intuitive Machines robotic lander was in transit to the moon. The Lonestar team transmitted a digital copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence across space to the lander, which then sent back digital copies of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Lonestar Will Launch a Second Lunar Data Center Onboard Intuitive Machines’ IM-2, 2024-04-08.
- The “Freedom” Payload. This second in space-based data services is slated to be deployed aboard Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 Lander later this year.
- The payload endeavors to establish the first physical data center on the Moon, equipped to provide Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), premium data backup services, and edge processing capabilities.
- Constructed by Skycorp Inc., the data center incorporates cutting-edge hardware including a storage device from Phison and a RISC V processor from Microchip, running a specialized version of Linux. Additionally, an ARMAS Radiation sensor, developed by Environmental Technologies, enhances the payload’s capabilities.
IM-2 lunar lander mission ends, 2025-03-07.
- Second lunar landing mission is over after concluding the toppled lander cannot generate sufficient power.
- Its IM-2 mission was over less than 24 hours after the Athena spacecraft landed, but fell on its side
- Sidus Space has signed an extended and amended $120 million agreement with Lonestar Data Holdings that expands the scope of their previous partnership.
- Sidus will handle six lunar data storage spacecraft design, payload integration, launch planning, and on-orbit support as part of the agreement.
- These spacecraft, based on Sidus’ adaptable LizzieSat® platform, aim to address the increasing need for robust data solutions beyond Earth’s orbit, offering secure and reliable storage for mission-critical information.
Solar System Internet Achieves Breakthrough DTN Edge Processing Test on Lunar Mission, 2025-08-22.
- In a milestone for interplanetary communications, Lonestar Data Holdings confirmed the successful test of the Solar System Internet's Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) aboard its lunar data center mission launched on Intuitive Machines' Athena lander in February.
- The demonstration validated the use of DTN technology, engineered to maintain robust communications in high-latency space environments.
Status Comment
As of August 2025, two payloads have reached the Moon but landers failed or operated for a short time. "Demonstrated" status for the service would require longer tests.
The company will launch on the second lander as an 8TB hardware deployment.
Notes
- Lonestar Data Holdings has raised $825,000 in an oversubscribed Pre-Series A funding round from existing and new investors, 2023-10-18.
- Imagine Dragons will also team up with Bethesda Games Studio, for a live debut of their track, “Children of the Sky (A Starfield Song).” Additionally, the track “will be transmitted back to Earth from the surface of the Moon as part of Lonestar’s Freedom Mission flying with Intuitive Machines to the South Lunar Pole in early 2025."
- Eayst Noa is on the Moon. Confirmation of successful tests of data centers to the Moon with our parent company, Lonestar Data Holdings, Feb 2024 and March 2025.
- The future of data storage? Look up, 2025-08-18.
News, Research, Projects and Patents
| Title | Type | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storage In Outer Space | News | 2022-12-27 |
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