Sidus Space and Lonestar Data Holdings completed the kickoff meeting and System Requirements Review (SRR) for the Lonestar Commercial Pathfinder Mission on November 18, 2025. The review confirmed that the technical specifications and integration plans for Lonestar’s in‑space data‑storage payload are aligned with Sidus’s LizzieSat satellite architecture, allowing the company to move forward with design, development, testing, and integration.
The payload will be housed on Sidus’s LizzieSat platform and will use the company’s FeatherEdge edge computer, which incorporates an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin GPU. The SRR cleared the path for the next milestone, the Preliminary Design Review, scheduled for early December 2025. Once the module is built and launched, Sidus expects to begin delivering on‑orbit data‑processing services to customers in the commercial and government sectors.
Sidus’s Q3 2025 financial results show a revenue of $1.3 million, a 31 % decline from the same quarter in 2024, and a net loss of $6 million versus a $3.9 million loss in the prior year. The company’s stock has fallen 85.5 % year‑to‑date. The partnership with Lonestar is part of Sidus’s pivot toward higher‑margin data‑as‑a‑service contracts, a strategy aimed at generating recurring revenue once the payload becomes operational.
The collaboration expands Sidus’s footprint in the emerging orbital data‑storage market and positions the company to capture recurring revenue from data‑as‑a‑service contracts. Lonestar, which has raised $8.9 million in funding and reports annual revenue of $1.6 million, brings experience from lunar and cislunar data‑storage tests conducted in February 2024 and 2025. Together, the two firms aim to deliver secure, immutable storage and edge‑processing services from low‑Earth orbit and beyond.
"Sidus has accelerated complex commercial missions from concept to orbit," said Carol Craig, Founder and CEO of Sidus Space. "The LizzieSat platform’s flexibility allows us to host a variety of payloads, and this partnership with Lonestar demonstrates our ability to deliver on‑orbit data‑processing capabilities that meet the growing demand for edge computing in space." Steve Eisele, CEO of Lonestar Data Holdings, added, "Our vision of sovereign, secure orbital data storage is now closer to reality, and the integration of our payload onto LizzieSat will accelerate the deployment of our services to customers worldwide."
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