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Nokia has been awarded a contract to establish a 4G network on the Moon. The contract is one of several that NASA is awarding to companies as it plans to return to the moon.
The $ 14.1 million contract was awarded to Nokia’s US subsidiary and is a small portion of the total $ 370 million awarded to companies like SpaceX. The cellular service will allow astronauts, rovers, lunar landers and habitats to communicate with each other, according to Jim Reuter, NASA’s associate administrator for space.
The 4G network that Nokia will build will be far superior to the form of communication used during the first missions to the moon.
This is not Nokia’s first attempt to launch an LTE network on the Moon. It planned to do so in 2018 in collaboration with PTScientists, a German space company, and Vodafone UK to launch an LTE network at the Apollo 17 landing site, but the plan never came to fruition.
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