Lonestar Data Holdings to Store Scottish Bagpipe Recordings on Lunar Data Centre

The Laidlaw Memorial Pipe Band, based in Banbury, England, will have digital recordings of its traditional Scottish bagpipe music uploaded to a lunar data centre being built by Lonestar Data Holdings, an American space‑technology firm. The project was sparked by band member Professor David Kerr’s friendship with entrepreneur Chris Stott, chief executive of Lonestar Data Holdings. The payload is scheduled for launch in 2027 and will be stored on a solar‑powered, radiation‑shielded server on the Moon alongside other cultural and commercial data. The musicians joke that the high‑pitched drone could act as an "Earth's alien defence system" to deter any curious Martians, but the initiative is primarily a cultural‑heritage and technology demonstration.

The effort follows recent public releases of UFO documents in the United States, yet the core aim is to preserve heritage music off‑planet and showcase the feasibility of lunar data storage.