The lunar lander has reached the moon. One St. Petersburg company boarded the train.

Chris Stott, founder of Lonestar Data Holdings in St. Petersburg, brought the news to other teams over a video call. The unmanned lunar landing gear, named Athena, carrying the company’s 8-terabyte data center, settled on the moon.

On Thursday afternoon, the celebration in the dark mailroom, closet-sized closet-sized, with Ronester set mission control, was slippery between developers and engineers. They could not know if the ship was upright as intended. But their data centers – weighing about two pounds, a black raised box similar to a hardcover book – were still sending signals.

The intuitive machinery, the company that runs Lunar Lander, led the mission early after a day when the spacecraft landed away from the target and fell to its side in a crater near the lunar cold Antarctic.

The publicly available Texas company stock fell in response. The failed mission was a blow to the Lone Star, but it wasn’t the end of the most audacious plan. Lonestar has confirmed that its data center is operating on the moon after it lands.

Launched in 2021, Lonestar, a space technology startup, wants to store data on the moon for its clients, from Florida and the Human Island (the territory of the UK Island) to game maker Bethesda Softworks. Stott’s reason is that the surface of the moon is completely out of reach of natural disasters, war, attacks on submarine cables and malware strikes.

Lonestar is currently sending data twice to the surface of the moon. Which intuitive machine lander made the ride even flip.

A broken landing brought him to his feet and tilted Odysseus, the first moon-bound container.

Athena’s failed arrival put several scientific missions at risk. According to CNN, the Lander has other equipment or “payloads,” such as hopping spacecraft, multiple rovers, and drills aimed at digging the surface of the moon and hunting water.

Over the past week, three private lunar landers have been sent to the moon in a new space race pursuing rare minerals and water in the shape of ice on the surface of the moon.

For Lonestar, the moon is its final destination. And even as hours of uncertainty spread around Athena’s fate, Stott celebrated the completion of another trial. Lonestar was the only company in Florida that paidloaded its release.

“You’re doing something no one has ever done before,” he told employees no matter what happens next.

The data center relayed information about its health and environment as it turned and landed on the moon.

After the successful launch of the test, the company hopes to build its own spacecraft with the help of a Florida manufacturer, and place permanent data centers on the moon with more capacity. The current 8 terabytes of storage in data centers represents a portion of the percentage of data processed by the US government every day.

Currently loaded into the data center is a collection of data, from disaster recovery files held by the state to private company apps and artificial intelligence. Next, there are some true random files: Magna Carta. Stamp from Human Island. Imagine Dragons music video created to test the video and audio playback capabilities of a data center.

So why is Florida willing to go all the way into its early quest for lunar technology?

Part of the answer could be in the state’s vulnerability to hurricanes, Stott said. The data has a unique “passport” on the planet, which he said can complicate who owns it. Over 100 countries have laws that regulate the transfer and ownership of data across borders, including the United States. The US says it has access to data stored within the country.

That limit does not exist on the month.

The moon is as cold as -300 degrees Fahrenheit. Lonestar won’t need to use energy to keep the data center cool, Amit Verma, a professor of electrical engineering at Texas A&M University Kingsville, told the Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineers.

However, Kent Draper, chief commercial officer at data center provider Aylen, told the Engineers Institute that if it takes time to send data to Earth, it can be difficult to make live streams and games difficult. He also said it would be much more expensive to send back the data center and fix it if things go wrong.

And while Lone Star data centers can fall victim to cybersecurity attacks if the company’s software and network are unsecure, new technology can keep the centers safer, Verma said.

Space Florida, the state’s aerospace booster, supports Lonestar with its Capital Accelerator Program.

The state is supporting new ideas like the Ronester to keep Florida’s $5.9 billion space industry at the top, he said.

He added that making private companies a spacer will also be cheaper than ever. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration paid $62.5 million for an intuitive machine to deliver the payload to the moon.

“Yes, there’s going to be a time when you go through…fail. But I think the innovation cycle will see some of it,” Long said. “There’s an entire thing that says space is difficult, right? It’s a different environment, but that environment is so different, that kind of a data center for space makes a lot of sense.”