Lonestar Data Holdings set to launch first moon-based data center
On February 10, Lonestar Data Holdings announced that its new lunar data center, Freedom, has been successfully tested and is ready for launch. Freedom will be both the first off-planet and first lunar-based physical data center and is integrated into Intuitive Machines’ Athena IM-2 mission lander, which is tentatively scheduled to launch in coordination with SpaceX at the end of February.
The Freedom payload follows Lonestar’s first mission, which involved a virtual data center operating in cislunar space and from the lunar surface. Lonestar’s ultimate aim is to use lunar data centers to provide global backup, global refresh, and global restore and to offer disaster recovery, resiliency as a service (RaaS), and edge processing capabilities from the moon.
“The Freedom Payload represents the first data center ever flown to the moon and a new frontier in disaster recovery and processing capabilities, setting a new benchmark for what is possible in space-based data services,” wrote Lonestar in a press release.
Lonestar reports that capacity on the upcoming mission is sold out.
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Hayden Beeson
Hayden Beeson is a writer and editor with over seven years of experience in a variety of industries. Prior to joining Lightwave and Broadband Technology Report, he was the associate editor of Architectural SSL and LEDs Magazine.