{"id":47147,"date":"2026-04-15T19:14:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lonestar-expands-launch-plans-for-orbital-data-storage-payload\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:14:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:14:43","slug":"lonestar-expands-launch-plans-for-orbital-data-storage-payload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lonestar-expands-launch-plans-for-orbital-data-storage-payload\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonestar Expands Launch Plans for Orbital Data Storage Payload"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lonestar <\/strong>gave a launch date for \u201cthe world\u2019s first commercially operational space-based sovereign data storage platform,\u201d dubbed StarVault, in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The company said demand for off-planet data security from governments, financial institutions, and critical infrastructure operators has exceeded its expectations. In response, it has expanded its agreement with <strong>Sidus Space<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sidus is now delivering two orbital data storage payloads, an increase from one, according to its separate Wednesday statement. The first payload is scheduled to launch in autumn 2026 aboard Sidus\u2019 LizzieSat-4 mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe expansion highlights the strength of our engineering processes and our ability to support increasingly complex payload integrations,\u201d Sidus Space CEO and founder Carol Craig commented.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement, Lonestar said StarVault combines its cryptographic key escrow capabilities with space-based data storage infrastructure to create a new category of digital resilience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith StarVault, we are not just launching a new category \u2014 we are scaling it,\u201d Lonestar CEO Steve Eisele commented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lonestar gave a launch date for \u201cthe world\u2019s first commercially operational space-based sovereign data storage platform,\u201d dubbed StarVault, in a statement on Wednesday. The company said demand for off-planet data security from governments, financial institutions, and critical infrastructure operators has exceeded its expectations. In response, it has expanded its agreement with Sidus Space. Sidus is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}