Lunar Economy

14/05/2024

Ilan Ramon Scholarship Project Sends Historic & Iconoclastic Israeli Space Images to the Moon

The Ilan Ramon Scholarship Project announced that it has sent historic and iconoclastic Israeli space images and photos to the Moon. According to Daniel

02/09/2023

Data storage and processing
Lonestar Data Holdings, a venture-backed data storage and processing startup, is planning a data center on the moon, which it considers an ideal location. “Data is the greatest currency created by the human race,” Lonestar founder Chris Stott said in a 2022 news release. “We are dependent upon it for nearly everything we do and it is too important to us as a species to store in Earth's ever more fragile biosphere.” The moon, he says, “represents the ideal place to safely store our future.”

NASA wants to foster a thriving lunar economy as part of its Artemis program — and the early winners look to be infrastructure plays

22/08/2023

https://www.reuters.com/science/why-are-space-agencies-racing-moons-south-pole-2023-08-22/

India's space agency is attempting to land a spacecraft on the moon's south pole, a mission that could advance India's space ambitions and expand knowledge of lunar water ice, potentially one of the moon's most valuable resources.

17/08/2023

https://www.arelion.com/knowledge-hub/the-connectivity-podcast/season-4-episode-39?utm_campaign=General&utm_content=1692251460&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin

In this episode, Mattias Fridström discuss with Chris Stott - the Founder, Chair, and CEO of Lonestar Data Holdings Inc., the Lunar information, technology, and communications company sending the first in a series of data centers to the Moon for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and Edge Proce...

17/08/2023

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-08-14/world-race-to-the-seventh-continent-the-moon.html #:~:text=Russia%20and%20India%20are%20vying,set%20to%20land%20in%202025&text=The%20Moon%20will%20be%20the,to%20be%20conquered%20and%20exploited

Russia and India are vying to be the first to reach the satellite’s south pole as the United States prepares a crewed mission that is set to land in 2025

04/08/2023

Eventually, data centers may move from the cloud into space. A startup called Lonestar has raised five million dollars to build small data centers on the moon by the end of 2023. Lunar data centers could take advantage of abundant solar energy and would be less susceptible to natural disasters and sabotage.https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2023/06/09/ais-growing-carbon-footprint/

26/07/2023

https://spacenews.com/nasa-selects-companies-to-advance-lunar-power-and-other-technologies/

Companies working on nuclear and solar power systems for the moon are among the winners of NASA awards to advance their technologies.

13/07/2023

As research and businesses become more established in space, data storage needs are growing. Vendors are building for the otherworldly conditions and keeping an eye on the moon.

The burgeoning space industry will need a source for data storage, with SSDs emerging as a clear choice -- so far.

04/07/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGqWK3gPlD0

Neil Koenig, former BBC Producer/Director and now ideaXme board advisor interviews Chris Stott, Founder, CEO and Chair of Lonestar Data Holdings Inc.Neil com...

10/06/2023

Eventually, data centers may move from the cloud into space. A startup called Lonestar has raised five million dollars to build small data centers on the moon by the end of 2023. Lunar data centers could take advantage of abundant solar energy and would be less susceptible to natural disasters and sabotage.

Artificial intelligence has the potential to develop game-changing ways to fight climate change — but only if we can find ways to cut its carbon emissions.

22/04/2023

https://defaeroreport.com/2023/04/14/the-downlink-apr-14-23-a-moon-landing-and-a-test-launch-two-events-that-could-change-almost-everything/

The White House says it wants, “to achieve the goal of enabling human transportation and settlement within the solar system.” There are two, possibly seismic, events about to happen in the space ecosystem that could help: The ispace moon landing and SpaceX’s first orbital flight test of its St...

04/04/2023

Plus the sharp rise in IoT cyber attacks in 2022, a new milestone for driverless car company Cruise and the going rate for a first-generation iPhone new in the package.

28/03/2023

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in St. Petersburg, Florida. In doing our research, we considered

15/03/2023

Since British mathematician and entrepreneur Clive Humby coined the rallying cry, “Data is the new oil,” some 20 years ago, it has been an upbeat phrase at data science conferences. But in engineering circles, that increasingly includes a daily grind of hardware challenges, and chief among them is how to cool the places where all that data is processed and stored......
Finally, putting a new spin on the concept of in the cloud, start-up Lonestar has raised $5 million for lunar data centers. Its first launch is scheduled for June 2023.

There’s no perfect solution to data center cooling, but multiple approaches are being developed.

08/03/2023

Lonestar Data Holdings secured $5 million in funding in preparation for the anticipated launch of a miniature data center later this year.

08/03/2023

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/lonestar-data-holdings-raises-5m-for-data-centers-on-the-moon/
Lonestar Data Holdings raises $5m for data centers on the Moon
Plans for first deployment this year

Plans for first deployment this year

08/03/2023

Lonestar raises $5 million for lunar data centers

Lonestar raises $5 million for lunar data centers

08/03/2023

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/florida-startup-moves-closer-building-205000309.htmlGizmodo
Florida Startup Moves Closer to Building Data Centers on the Moon

Unprecedented access to space is leading to all sorts of cool new ideas, including the prospect of storing data on the lunar surface. Cloud computing startup Lonestar Data Holdings announced the results of its latest funding round, taking it one step closer to this very goal.

22/02/2023

https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6320888468112/ =show-clips

Intuitive Machines co-founder and CEO Stephen Altemus discusses the space company's research program and its upcoming NASA mission to the South Pole on 'The Claman Countdown.'

15/02/2023

https://www.space.com/intuitive-machines-astronauts-moon-technology-nasdaq

Congratulations to Intuitive Machines!!!!!

The moon-landing company went public on the Nasdaq on Wednesday (Feb. 15) amid a renewed focus by NASA to bring humans and robots to the lunar surface.

09/02/2023

The next frontier

Since the time of Aristotle, we’ve lived the aphorism of “Ubi societas, ibi ius,” roughly translated to: Where there is a society, there is law. Yet as Christopher Stott, the CEO of a company building the first lunar data center (read more in Part I) pointed out, “Today, wherever there are people, there is data.”

With more people and tech entering space, space data centers may be more of a necessary evolution than fantasy. Until then, one thing is sure: Space is the next frontier for data.

Despite the rise in space data, nearly all data is stored and processed on Earth. But computing in orbit and in space is around the corner.

24/01/2023

Why Data Storage Is Mission Critical For The Future Of Space

Technologies developed for space have provided earthly benefits in healthcare and other critical sectors while transforming technologies into products we use regularly.

24/01/2023

https://thespaceoriginal.buzz/2023/01/23/chris-stott-wants-you-to-back-up-your-data-on-the-moon/

By David Bullock “For us as a technological civilization, the two most important things are us [humankind], and our data. If we lose our data, we lose our species,” said Chris Stott, founder and CEO of Lonestar Data Holdings. The company’s goal is to have data storage on the Moon, with its mis...

21/01/2023

So what limitations does Durgin see of cloud and cross-cloud, given that one cloud can’t do it all? Durgin cited her background growing up in the data center, where things were physically limited by space. In such a space, you can only put so many racks in the data center before you run out of space. Even Earth has limited space, she noted.

I know I’m kind of talking crazy, but until we figure out how to build a data center on the moon, we will have to figure out how to take advantage of all the compute capacity that we have across the world,” she said.

We are on it!

Head of data at Saks on what’s needed when ‘every company is a data company’ - SiliconANGLE

07/01/2023

Part 2 of a Series In April 2018, NASA announced that it would no longer build robotic moon landers, but that it would pay

02/01/2023

Lonestar Data Holdings previously declared its intention to construct a data center on the moon for the purposes of backing up the world's data and supporting demands related to lunar edge processing in 2022.

28/12/2022

Storage In Outer Space

Lonestar Data Holdings plans to send a small server into space during a second half 2023 NASA lunar landing mission using 8TB SSDs from Phison. Lonestar plans to store many PBs of data on the moon later this decade.

11/12/2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/11/science/spacex-ispace-japan-moon-lander.html

The company, Ispace, is carrying a rover from the United Arab Emirates, a Japanese robot and other cargo in its bid to possibly be the first commercial lander to reach the moon.

06/12/2022

The technology has completed the flight qualification tests required for it to be used in Lonestar Data Holdings’ historic first lunar data centre mission

17/11/2022

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/17/nasa-artemis-moon-mission-sls-rocket
Welcome to the new Moon age!!!

Things are about to get very exciting.