Lonestar and Phison Data Center infrastructure is headed for the moon

Storage company and data resistance Lonestar and a semiconductor and storage company Phison The infrastructure of the SpaceX rocket data center on Wednesday, which headed for the moon, is launched.

The companies send Pascar for storage to Phison – Solid State Drives (SSDS), built for data centers – filled with Lonestar customer data for the SpaceX Falcon rocket, which will land on March 4. This marks the beginning of the Lunar Data Center, the first of the other that companies plan to expand in the future until it holds a petabit of storage.

Chris Stot, the founder, chairman and CEO of Lonestar, told TechCrunch that the idea of ​​building a space center in space had emerged in 2018. The years before the current AI-drive jump in the search center. He said clients are looking for ways to store their data outside the ground so that they are immunized by things like climate disasters and hacking.

“The most precious element of humanity, beyond us, is data,” said Sent. “They see the data like the new oil. I would say it is more pronounced than that. “

A hundred said that partnership with Phison for building a space data center is a natural choice. Phison already provides solutions for storage of space missions through NASA Rover’s persistence on Mars. The company also offers a design service called Imagine Plus, which develops personalized storage solutions for unique projects.

“We were very excited when there was a call from Chris,” Michael Wu, a general manager and President of Phison, told TechCrunch. “We took a standard product and managed to customize everything they need for these products and started it. So this is a very exciting trip. “

Lonestar partnered with Phison in 2021 and have since been developing SSDs for storage designed for place. A hundred added that companies spent years testing the product before their first start, as the technology should be rock solid – it cannot be easily fixed if a problem arises.

“(This is) Why are SSDS so important,” Stot said. “No moving parts. Remarkable technology allows us to do what we do for these governments and we hope almost every government in the world as we go forward and almost every company and corporation. “

A hundred said the technology was ready to start in 2023 and the company successfully conducted a test start in early 2024.

Starting Wednesday included different types of customers, ranging from multiple governments interested in disaster recovery to a space agency testing a large linguistic model. Even the band imagines that Dragons is involved, sending a music video for one of their songs from the Soundtrack of Space Game Starfield.

Lonestar is not the only company that wants to introduce data centers into space. Another contender, Lumen Orbit, came out of the batch of Y Combinator Summer 2024. The launch collected one of the the most bridal circles of seeds from this YC cohort, raising more than $ 21 million and rebranding as StarCloudS

As the AI-governed hardware demand is accelerating, we will probably see more companies pursue space storage solutions that offer almost endless storage capacity and solar energy, the benefits that are tied to the earth data centers cannot coincide.

For Lonestar, if all goes well, the company plans to cooperate with the satellite manufacturer Sidus Space to build six space ships for storing data that the company expects to launch between 2027 and 2030.

“It’s fascinating to see the level of professionalism, it’s huge,” Sent said. “This is not 60 years ago with the Apollo program. Apollo Flights, they had 2 kilobytes of RAM and had 36 kilobytes of storage. We are here on this mission, flying 1 gigabyte of RAM and 8 terabytes for storage with Phison Pascari. This is huge. “