Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. is a data center infrastructure and services company focused on providing resilient data storage solutions by backing up terrestrial data in space. Lonestar aims to establish data centers on the Moon, offering "Resiliency as a Service (RaaS)" through a space-based data storage and communications network. They partner with companies like Intuitive Machines and SpaceX to launch lunar data centers, utilizing solar-powered designs and SSD storage. Their mission is to provide global backup, refresh, and restore capabilities for premium customers, safeguarding data against disasters and ensuring data sovereignty.
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The agreement is for the design and integration of Lonestar’s high-capacity Digital Data Storage Payload onto LizzieSat-5.
The initiative marks Lonestar's first commercial data storage offering in low Earth orbit after previous successful test flights in lunar and cislunar regions.
The project follows an earlier agreement between Sidus Space and Lonestar Data Holdings for future $120 million lunar data storage spacecraft.
Sidus Space will design, develop, and integrate the Lonestar payload and oversee its deployment and payload validation.
Under the agreement, Sidus will design, develop, and integrate one Lonestar payload onto LizzieSat®-5.
Sidus will arrange deployment and payload commissioning in coordination with Lonestar.
The LizzieSat®-5 mission builds upon an earlier preliminary $120 million agreement between Sidus and Lonestar for future lunar data storage spacecraft.
Sidus Space executed a Commercial Pathfinder Mission Agreement with Lonestar Data Holdings for the design and integration of Lonestar's high-capacity Digital Data Storage Payload onto LizzieSat®-5.
The mission serves as the rollout of Lonestar's commercial offering for in-space data storage and edge processing technologies.
Phison partnered with Lonestar Data Holdings to fly a data center payload on the IM-2 lunar lander mission earlier this year.
Sidus Space is Lonestar’s exclusive satellite manufacturing partner for six lunar data storage spacecraft.
Sidus Space has been selected to design and build the first generation of Data Storage Spacecraft for Lonestar.
The spacecraft will be designed to meet Lonestar’s high standards for secure, redundant data storage solutions.
Phison’s 8TB M.2 2280 SSD solution was previously selected to take part in Lonestar Data Holdings’ first lunar data center mission.
The Independence payload developed by Lonestar Data Holdings was delivered on Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 Odysseus Nova-C lander mission.
Lonestar Data Holdings has a second commercial mission contracted with Intuitive Machines on the IM-2 mission scheduled for later 2024.
Lonestar Data Holdings plans to deploy a range of increasingly sophisticated data centers on, in, and around the Moon, including a follow-on mission scheduled later 2024.
Fieldfisher’s Space Projects team provided space regulatory advice to Lonestar Data Holdings for the first successful commercial landing on the Moon on 2024-02-22.
Lonestar Data Holdings successfully tested its data center concept in cislunar space and subsequently from the Moon.
The first successful commercial lunar landing on 2024-02-22 used Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus NOVA-C lander that included the Lonestar Data payload.