NASA, along with a Florida-based tech startup called Lonestar and the Isle of Man, is teaming up to create a unique data storage solution on the Moon using blockchain technology.
They plan to send a special payload containing “data cubes” to the Moon in February 2024. It plans to conduct a test by creating digital stamps known as ‘ digital franking’ that will be stored in the data cubes on the Moon.
The data stored in these cubes will be verified and secured using blockchain, which is a technology that ensures data cannot be tampered with. Once installed, blockchain will verify the data back on earth and ensure it is complete and untempered.
If everything goes according to plan, this same blockchain technology will be used to confirm and record the fact that humans have indeed landed on the Moon during NASA’s upcoming mission called Artemis 3 in 2025.
This will provide an indisputable and unchangeable record of the human landing on the Moon.
The second part of NASA’s Artemis mission, called Artemis 2, is scheduled to launch in November 2024. Unlike the first mission, this one will have a crew of four astronauts.
However, they won’t actually land on the Moon. Instead, they will travel from Earth, orbit the Moon, and then return home. This mission serves as a final test before NASA sends humans to the Moon’s surface in Artemis 3.
One of the scientific missions happening during the Artemis missions involves a collaboration between Lonestar and the Isle of Man.
They are working together to develop a lunar storage system that can store things on the Moon for a long time. This system will use solar power and won’t require any additional infrastructure to set up.
