- Lonestar plans to offer recovery services after sinister from the moon
- He successfully tested a data center defined by lunar software in 2024
- His next mission, launched soon, will test a physical data center (in a way)
We all know how important it is to save our personal data in the event of a disaster – I have certainly learned that the lesson years ago to the harsh when a hard disk has worked badly and fried my desktop computer. As devastating as it has been for me personally, for companies, the loss of data can be catastrophic, because although files and files can be saved in several ways, including the cloud, out -of -site data centers, band storage and NAS, certain solutions take the idea to the extreme.
Such an example is the Archives of the Arctic World (AWA), which stores containers filled with data inside a sealed chamber inside a tossed coal mine in Svalbard, between continental Norway and the North Pole. If it is not sure enough and far enough for you, well, there is always space.
Lonestar Data Holdings, based in Florida, was founded by Chris Stott in 2021 to provide data services such as recovery after claim and resilience as a service from the Ultimate Earth backup location – the Moon.
A RISC-V company
Lonestar successfully tested the first data center defined by the world’s software on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2021 and 2022, then carried out a complete data storage test from the surface of the moon last year.
In collaboration with its lunar access provider, Intuitive Machines, Lonestar completed its first mission on the Moon (called “Independence”) with a demonstration of concept proof after the IM-1 Odysseus Nova-C. It was not a complete success, because the vehicle found itself on its side.
Lonestar’s next mission, once again with intuitive machines (this called “Freedom”), will be a test of its first physical “data center” (a RISC-V processor with an SSD Phison running Ubuntu) sent outside Planet. This mission should be launched on February 26.
Write on Lonestar, Blocks and files Said: “The Freedom IT unit has a 3D printed case designed by Big, an architecture and design group led by the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels. The exterior is supposed to “reflect the silhouettes of astronauts from NASA Charlie DUKE (Apollo Moonwalker) and Nicole Stott (Space Station Space Walker)”.
It is somewhat unexpected that a small computer system in a lunar landing vehicle would have resources devoted to a case which, once locked in the Athena vehicle and charged in the launch rocket of SpaceX, will never be seen again. Presumably, Lonestar wants to capture the imagination of people with the idea. »Regarding marketing waterfalls, it’s good.
Assuming that everything goes as planned, Lonestar hopes to start continuous commercial services in 2026.
