- LASTAR plans to offer disaster recovery services of the moon
- Successfully tested a data center defined by lunar software in 2024
- His next mission, which will be launched soon, will test a physical data center (more or less)
We all know how important it is to back up our personal data in case of a disaster; I certainly learned that lesson in the difficult way, when a hard drive did not work badly and cold my desktop PC. As devastating as it was personally, for companies, data loss can be catastrophic, since while files and folders can be supported in many ways, even to the cloud, data centers outside the site, storage of tape And nas, some solutions take the idea to the extreme.
An example of this is the Archive World Archive (AWA), which stores containers full of data inside a sealed camera inside a coal of dismantled coal in Svalbard, between Norway Continental and the North Pole. If that is not sure 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 disaster recovery and resilience as a service of the earth’s final backup location: the moon.
An RISC-V adventure
Lonestar successfully tested the first data center defined by software in the world at the International Space Station (ISS) in 2021 and 2022, then carried out a complete data storage test from the moon surface last year.
Working with his lunar access provider, intuitive machines, Labsear completed his first mission to the moon (called “Independence”) with a demonstration of proof of concept after the IM-1 Odysseus Nova-C landing landed in the South Lunar Pole in February in February past. It was not a complete success, since the vehicle ended sideways.
The next mission of Lonestar, again with intuitive machines (this so-called “freedom”), will be a proof of its first “physical” data center (an RISC-V processor with a phison SSD that is executed by Ubuntu) sent outside the planet. That mission will be launched on February 26.
Writing about Lonetar, Blocks and files He says: “The Freedom IT unit has a 3D printed housing designed by Big, a group of architecture and design led by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels. It is said that the exterior ‘reflects the silhouettes of NASA’s astronauts Charlie Duke (Apollo Moonwalker) and Nicole Stott (Space Station Space Walker)’.
It is something unexpected that a small computer system in a lunar landing vehicle has resources dedicated to a housing that, once locked in the Athena vehicle and loaded in the Spacex launch rocket, will never be seen again. Presumably, Lonestar wants to capture the imagination of people with the idea. “As for marketing acrobatics, it is good.
Assuming that everything goes as planned, Labesar hopes to begin continuous commercial services in 2026.
