Company - Lonestar Data Holding
Product/Service
- Classification
- Space Utilities
- Category
- In-Orbit Computing
In-Orbit Data Storage
- Fields
- Moon
Space Arks
- Status
- Development
- 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.
Intuitive Machines IM-2 is scheduled for mid-2024 as of late 2023. The company will launch on the second lander as an 8TB hardware deployment.
News, Research, Projects and Patents
Title | Type | Date | Summary |
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Storage In Outer Space | News | 2022-12-27 |