Lonestar Data Holdings has raised $6.6 million to further its ambitions to deploy data centers in and around the Moon.

The round, first reported by the Tampa Bay Business Journal, was led by Atypical Ventures and California-based The Veteran Fund.

Alongside the new funding, the company has rearranged its leadership. Lonestar’s president and chief revenue officer, Stephen Eisele, has been named CEO. Founder and former CEO Chris Stott will become executive chairman.

Lonestar aims to deploy data centers on the Moon and in lunar orbit as long-term disaster recovery sites.

The company deployed the first data center on the Moon as part of the troubled IM-2 mission early last year. DCD profiled the journey in a feature that was itself taken to the lunar surface.

Lonestar next plans to focus on satellite-based data storage, signing a $120m agreement with satellite designer Sidus Space. The company hopes to deploy six cis-lunar data storage satellites.

“Our next missions are to the Lunar L1 Lagrange point and not to the lunar surface,” Stott told DCD last year. “The L1 Lagrange Point is a strategic orbital position between the Earth and the Moon, 300,000km (186,411 miles) away from Earth. When digital infrastructure is needed for Artemis and others, we will be there to provide it.”