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Data storage and flexibility company Lunstar And the semiconductor company and the storage company Veson The data center on the SpaceX missile was launched on Wednesday heading to the moon.
The companies send PASCARI from PASCARI – SSDS (SSDS) drives designed for data centers – full of Lonestar customer data on the Spacex Falcon 9 missile that was appointed on March 4. This represents the beginning of the moon data center, which is the first ever, companies plan to expand in the future until Betit holds storage.
Chris Stote, the founder, chair and CEO of Lonestar, Techcrunch that the idea of building a data center in the space originated in 2018-before AI’s current increase in demand for the data center. He said that customers were looking for ways to store their data outside the ground, so it would be a fortified things like climate disasters and piracy.
“The most expensive element of humanity, outside us, is the data,” said Stot. “They see the data as the new oil. I would like to say it is more precious than that.”
Stout said that the partnership with Veson to build a space data center was a natural choice. PHison has already provides storage solutions for satellite missions by perseverance in NASA on Mars. The company also provides a design service called Imagine Plus, which develops storage solutions for unique projects.
“We were very excited when there was an invitation from Chris,” Michael Woo, General Manager of Weiseon, told Techcrunch. “We took a standard product and managed to allocate everything they need for these products and launched it. So it is a very exciting journey.”
Lionestar has made a partnership with Phiston in 2021, and since then they have developed SSD storage units designed for space. Stout added that the companies that spent years in the product test before their first launch because technology should be solid rock – it cannot be easily repaired if a problem appears.
“This (this) why SSDS is very important,” said Stot. “No mobile parts. It is a great technology that allows us to do what we do for these governments and we hope that almost every government will be in the world while we advance and almost every company and company.”
Stout said that technology has been ready since 2023 and the company has ever conducted a test in early 2024.
On Wednesday, the launch of different types of customer data included many governments interested in recovery from disasters to the space agency that tests a large language model. Even Imagine Dragons participated, as she sent a video clip of one of her songs from Starfield Space Game.
Lonestar is not the only company looking to bring databases to space. Another competitor, Lumen Orbit, appeared from the Y Combinator’s Summer 2024 batch. The startup company got one of Tours the most boxes From those regiment YC, raising more than 21 million dollars and the Starcloud.
Since AI’s demand on devices is accelerating, we will likely see more companies that follow space -based storage solutions, which provide almost countless storage capacity and solar energy capacity, which are advantages that the data centers heading to the Earth cannot match.
For Lonestar, if things go well, the company plans to cooperate with satellite SIDUS Space Satellite to create six spacecraft to store data that the company expects to launch between 2027 and 2030.
“It is great to see the level of professionalism, it is tremendous,” Strot said. “This is not 60 years ago with APollo. APOLLO FLIGHT computers, and they had 2 kilograms of RAM and had 36 kg of storage. We are here at this task, we fly 1 GB of RAM and 8 Terabytes of storage with Phiston Pascari. It is tremendous.”