ST PETERSBURG, Fla., Aug. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — In a major advancement for space exploration, Lonestar Data Holdings is thrilled to announce the success of its test for the Solar System Internet (SSI) of their ground-breaking Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) which leveraged the edge processing capabilities aboard Lonestar Data Holdings’ data center mission enroute to the Moon which launched to the lunar surface on Intuitive Machines’ second mission to the Moon on their lunar lander, Athena.
Future applications for the Solar System Internet enabled by their successful test with Lonestar
The innovative DTN technology, designed to enable reliable communications in challenging space environments where high latency support is a requirement, was successfully tested. The application demonstrated how advanced medical data can be transmitted efficiently across vast distances with high latency, paving the way for enhanced astronaut health monitoring and potential remote medical procedures on future space missions.
By leveraging the edge processing capabilities of Lonestar’s data center, the experiment simulated hypothetical real-time medical data collection and transmission from Cis Lunar space and lunar orbit back to Earth, providing invaluable insights into the capabilities of space-grade network communications.
“We were excited to take part in this historic mission that bridges space exploration with medical technology,” said Vinton Cerf, a founding Board member of the Interplanetary Chapter of the Internet Society that is working on the SSI project. “The DTN test on the Freedom Payload advanced our understanding of interplanetary communication systems but also highlighted the potential for remote healthcare in isolated environments.”
Oscar Garcia, creator of Unified Medical Records for Space Exploration, said, “The innovative and affordable digital health technologies for Earth and space that we have developed, and the advanced space communication systems coupled with the space data centers that Lonestar is pioneering for the Moon and beyond, present a new landscape for secure space healthcare systems, in times where data safety has turned into an essential demand. Our test will allow digital healthcare to be provided for the Moon and Mars in the near future.”
Chris Stott, CEO and Founder of Lonestar said, “Delay Tolerant Networks are the future for all digital communications in space. We were honored to be a part of enabling this crucial test for the Solar System Internet team.”
The mission launched February 26th 2025 representing a significant step forward in the operational testing of the Solar System Internet, marking a pivotal moment in the use of space-developed technologies that could benefit Earth-based applications in remote or extreme conditions.
About Solar System Internet
The Solar System Internet (SSI) project is at the forefront of developing communication technologies that expand the boundaries of data transmission across the solar system. By enhancing the reliability and efficiency of space communications, SSI project aims to support the future of human and robotic space exploration.
About Vinton G. Cerf
Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He has served in executive positions at ICANN, the Internet Society, MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. A former Stanford Professor and former member of the US National Science Board, he is also the past President of the Association for Computing Machinery, Emeritus Chairman of the Marconi Society and serves in advisory capacities at NIST, DOE, NSF, US Navy, JPL and NRO. He earned his B.S. in mathematics at Stanford and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science at UCLA. He is a member of both the US National Academies of Science and Engineering, the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and the Worshipful Company of Stationers.
Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards for his work, including the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, US National Medal of Technology, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the Prince of Asturias Award, the Japan Prize, the Charles Stark Draper award, the ACM Turing Award, the Marconi Prize and Marconi Lifetime Achievement Award, the IEEE Medal of Honor, the Legion d’Honneur, the VinFutures Grand Prize and the Franklin Medal. He is a Foreign Member of the British Royal Society and Swedish Academy of Engineering and holds 32 honorary degrees.
About Lonestar Data Holdings Inc:
Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. is pioneering a new class of premium data storage and edge processing services creating a premier data secure network to service terrestrial, space, and lunar based digital infrastructure. Lonestar provides secure digital services for enterprise and government customers directly and through trusted Cloud service providers. For more information, please visit www.lonestarlunar.com.
About Unified Medical Records:
Unified Medical Records System has 25 years of experience working with healthcare records in challenging environments where connectivity is unstable and information needs to be available when required, integrating the multiple sources of medical data using different technologies. Oscar Garcia created and developed Unified Medical Records for Space Exploration (UMRSX) (beta) that was presented in October 2020. UMRSX (beta) has been designed for easy installation being the first digital health system thought to operate in the constrained computing environments available in spacecrafts, and is planned to be an off the shelf application for space travel.
Mr. Garcia was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award of the British Interplanetary Society for Unified Medical Records for Space Exploration. Recently he founded Space Software to develop systems to be used in space.
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