Lonestar and Phison’s infrastructure is directed to the moon

Data storage and storage company Lonely and semiconductor and storage Company Philanthropic Launched a data center infrastructure at a Rocket SpaceX on Wednesday heading to the moon.

Companies send the Pascari storage of Phison – Solid State Drives (SSDS) built for Lonestar’s Data Centers – full of Lonestar Customer Data to a Rocket Spacex Falcon 9 landing on March 4.

Chris Stott, founder, chairman and chief executive of Lonestar, told Techcrunch that the idea of ​​building a data center in 2018 was in 2018-year before the current increase in demand for data centers. He said customers were looking for ways to store their data from Earth so that they were immune from things such as climate disasters and piracy.

“The most valuable element of mankind, outside of us, is data,” Stott said. “They see the data as the new oil. I would say it’s more valuable than that.”

Stott said that working with Phison to build a space center center was a natural choice. Phison already provides storage solutions for space missions through NASA’s Rover on Mars. The company also offers a design service called Imagine Plus, which develops custom storage solutions for unique projects.

“We were very excited when there is a call from Chris,” said Michael Wu, general manager and president of Phison, to TechCrunch. “We got a standard product and we could customize whatever they needed for these products and we started it. So it’s a very exciting journey.”

Lonestar has worked with Phison in 2021 and have been developing SSD storage units since then. Stott added that companies have spent years tasting the product before their first launch, because technology should be rock stable – it cannot be easily corrected if an issue arises.

‘[This is] Why SSDs are so important, “Stott said.” No moving places. It is a remarkable technology that allows us to do what we do for these governments and hope that almost every government in the world we are proceeding with almost every company and company. “

Stott said technology has been ready in 2023 and the company successfully carried out a test launch in early 2024.

Wednesday’s launch included various types of customer data, ranging from multiple governments interested in disaster repairing a space service that is testing a large linguistic model. Even the Imagine Dragons band participated, sending a music video for one of their songs from the Starfield Space Game Soundtrack.

Lonestar is not the only company that wants to bring data centers into space. Another candidate, Lumen Orbit, came from the lot of Combinator’s summer. The start gathered one of the seeds of the YC group, increasing more than $ 21 million and reconstruction as Starcloud.

As demand is accelerated, it is likely that we will see more companies seeking space storage solutions, which offer almost infinite storage capacity and solar energy, advantages that cannot fit the Earth -connected data centers.

For Lonestar, if all goes well, the company plans to work with the Sidus satellite manufacturer to build six data storage spacecraft that the company expects to start between 2027 and 2030.

“It’s exciting to see the level of professionalism. It’s huge,” Stott said. “This is not 60 years ago with the Apollo program. Apollo flight computers, had 2 Kilobytes of RAM and had 36 Kilobytes. Here we are on this mission, throwing 1 Gigabyte of RAM and 8 Terabytes with Phison Pascari. It is huge.”