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The Finnish company Nokia has been selected by NASA to build the first cellular network on the Moon, Reuters reports. NASA aims, through its Artemis program, to get people back to the moon by 2024 and to establish permanent bases on the surface of selenium.
Nokia has announced that the first wireless broadband communications system in space will be built on the surface of the Moon in late 2022, before the astronauts return there.
The Finnish company won $ 14 million from NASA, along with a private Texas spacecraft design company, Intuitive Machines, to send the team to the moon with its selenium probe. The network will self-configure and establish a 4G / LTE communications system on the Moon, Nokia said, with the intention of switching to 5G in the future.
The network will provide astronauts with voice and video communication capabilities and enable the exchange of telemetry and biometric data, as well as the remote dispatch and control of selenium rovers and other robotic devices, the company said.
The network will be designed to withstand extreme launch and landing conditions and to operate in space.
The equipment must be shipped to the Moon in a very compact form to accommodate the size, weight and power limits of the space charge.
Nokia, quoted by Agerpres, indicated that the network will use 4G / LTE technology, used throughout the world in the last decade, instead of 5G – the most recent – because in the case of the first, the quantity and reliability are better known.
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