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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Lonestar Data Holdings selected Intuitive Machines as its partner for the Independence Mission and will continue working with Intuitive Machines for the company's upcoming Freedom Mission.
The milestone was achieved by Lonestar Data Holdings' Independence Mission, which is aimed at establishing a series of increasingly sophisticated data centers on and around the Moon.
Lonestar’s Independence payload will undergo a series of in-flight tests designed to qualify Lonestar’s lunar data center concept for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS).
Leidos' Dynetics team was awarded the Lonestar contract in 2018.
Lonestar launched on 2022-07-01 from the Mojave Air and Space Port.
Lonestar is a technology demonstrator designed to provide space-based situational awareness directly to the tactical warfighter.
Scout Ventures led Lonestar Data Holdings’ $5,000,000 seed funding round.
Lonestar Data Holdings raised $5,000,000 in seed funding.
Dynetics developed, tested, integrated, and delivered the Lonestar tactical space support vehicle through the Design, Development, Demonstration and Integration (D3I), Domain 1 task order for $9,000,000 including a one-year on-orbit demonstration.
Work on the Lonestar program took place at Redstone Arsenal and the Dynetics campus in Huntsville.
The Lonestar tactical space support vehicle is a technology demonstrator designed to provide space-based situational awareness directly to the tactical warfighter.
LoneStar announced plans in April to deploy a miniature proof-of-concept data center on the moon.
The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command developed and launched satellites including Kestrel Eye, Gunsmoke-J imaging spacecraft, and the Lonestar experiment for space-based situational awareness.
Future Lonestar data centers are being designed to survive the lunar night and aim to match the 15-to-20-year lifecycle of geostationary satellites.
Lonestar has contracted to perform a series of advanced service tests on Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission near Marius Hills in the Oceanus Procellarum region of the Moon.
In December 2021 Lonestar tested its edge data center from the International Space Station with British software company Canonical and U.S.-based Redwire.
Lonestar sees the Moon as the ideal location to serve the premium segment of the $200,000,000,000 global data storage industry.
Skycorp is building Lonestar’s first data center payload, which weighs 1 kg and has 16 terabytes of capacity.
Lonestar fully funded its IM-1 and IM-2-enabled demos with backing from early-stage investors Scout Ventures, Seldor Capital, and 2 Future Holding.
Lonestar aims to deploy a standalone data center on the moon in 2026.