Join us this week for a live conversation with Chris Stott, CEO of Lonestar Data Holdings, the company leading the charge in building data storage infrastructure on the Moon.
Lonestar made headlines earlier this year after their 8TB SSD was flown aboard Intuitive Machines' Athena lunar lander, successfully completed its data transmission and telemetry milestones, even after the lander tipped on its side. Despite the early end to the mission, Lonestar demonstrated that lunar computing is no longer a concept for the future.
Come hear Chris share what it took to get a working server to the Moon, what they learned from the mission, and what’s next for space-based infrastructure.
Join us live this week: Thursday at 3pm Eastern. Bring your questions.
The end of Q2 is rapidly approaching, which means that it is almost time again for MoonDAO's quarterly retroactive rewards cycle. Every quarter, we reward the top projects and contributors during the previous quarter with ETH and vMOONEY rewards.
Of the total reward pool, 10% is set aside for Community Contributions, where independent contributions from Citizens in the Space Acceleration Network get rewarded for work that helps advance our mission.
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Last week, we shared news about the upcoming Ax-4 mission to the International Space Station, but just hours before liftoff, the launch was delayed due to a liquid oxygen leak in the Falcon 9 booster.
That alone might have merited a short delay, but soon after, a more serious concern emerged: a pressure drop was detected inside the ISS’s Russian Zvezda module, where the Ax-4 crew was set to stay. This module has a history of small air leaks, but the new readings raised fresh safety concerns, prompting NASA and Axiom to postpone the mission while investigating.
After further monitoring and repairs, air pressure in the affected section has stabilized, and the Falcon 9 booster has also passed its final tests. The mission was rescheduled to launch today, June 18, but has been pushed once again with a new target launch date of June 22.
Last week, SpaceX hit a major milestone with its 500th Falcon rocket mission, launching 26 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from Vandenberg on June 12. This flight brings the total number of active Starlink satellites to over 7,600, further expanding global internet coverage, including emerging direct-to-cell capabilities.
The Falcon 9 booster used (B1081) made its 15th successful landing on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You. With 72 Falcon 9 launches already in 2025, SpaceX is on pace for another record setting year.
The Pope and James Webb
In a rare intersection of science and faith, Pope Leo XIV praised NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope during an event at the Vatican Observatory, calling it a “truly remarkable instrument” that reveals the “sublime complexity” of God’s creation.
The star cluster NGC 602, near the outskirts of the small magellanic cloud, a satellite galaxy about 200,000 light years from Earth ESA/WEBB, NASA & CSA, P. ZEIDLER
He described this as an exciting time for astronomy, where ancient starlight and images of distant galaxies stir “mysterious joy” and offer a glimpse into cosmic creation once only imagined by the authors of sacred scripture. Urging scientists to share that wonder widely, the Pope highlighted how discoveries like Webb’s can inspire unity, deepen our sense of purpose, and contribute to building a more peaceful and just world.
100 Days Ago 100 days ago, MoonDAO, in partnership with LifeShip and members of the Meme World Order, touched down on the surface of the Moon, placing a lunar bounty in the Mare Crisium for future human or robotic explorers to retrieve and claim the bounty in the form of a crypto wallet and private key engraved in nickel nanofiche. MoonDAO 🌜🌐🌛 @OfficialMoonDAO They told us to touch grass. We touched the Moon instead. 🫡 We teamed up with Meme World Order to put a crypto bounty on the lunar...
Citizen #120 A big welcome to three new citizens who have onboarded into the Space Acceleration Network recently, bringing the total up to #120 people from around the world! Citizens in the Network can: Submit their independent space related work for retroactive compensation by the community, here's a glimpse of the top community earners and their rewards from last quarter: Get 10% discounts on any purchase within the Marketplace with listings from over a dozen teams in the Network. Access an...
Progress Update Progress = Integral (What did you get done this week?) over 52 weeks (with receipts). Achieved: Sent Dr. Eiman Jahangir to space with Blue Origin. Generated 214 ETH ($581,000) in onchain verifiable income. Onboarded 119 Citizens. Citizens have earned 11.9 ETH (~$31k) and 19.4M $MOONEY (~$6.5k) via our incentive system within the last quarter. That’s ~$1,200.00 in earnings per citizen / year. Platformed 15 Space Companies with our Teams platform. Sales, hiring, and funding all...
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