CommStar Space Communications is a U.S.-based company aiming to deploy advanced data relay satellites to bridge communication gaps between Earth, the Moon, and beyond. It is planning to deploy CommStar-1, a hybrid radio frequency and optical communications satellite, to provide "always on" data services for government and commercial ventures in cislunar space. Thales Alenia Space is a key partner in the design of CommStar-1, and LEOcloud is teaming with CommStar to provide lunar cloud services. Associated keywords include: data relay, cislunar, lunar communications, space-based network, Thales Alenia Space.
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Partners such as LEOcloud will be able to deliver compute, cache, and storage services to end users including landers, habitations, and industrial activities on or below the lunar surface via CommStar-1.
CommStar intends to deploy the communications satellite CommStar-1 at Lagrange point 1 (L1) in late 2023 to serve as a Network Access Point open to all interoperable users.
LEOcloud and CommStar executed a Memorandum of Understanding to co-develop advanced cloud computing services for government and commercial customers in Cislunar space and on the lunar surface.
CommStar intends CommStar-1 to provide Gigabits-per-second throughput and about 200 milliseconds latency to the lunar surface from L1.