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The Finnish company Nokia has received a contract from the US space agency NASA to deploy 4G wireless communication systems on the Moon. They plan to build a base there by 2028.
Write about this CNN.
The project will be implemented by Bell Labs, a subsidiary of Nokia, together with the engineering company Intuitive Machines.
Bell Labs will receive $ 14.1 million from NASA to work on the project. The space agency said the 4G network will provide more reliable communications on the moon than radio signals. As on Earth, it is planned to upgrade the lunar 4G network to the 5G standard over time.
It should be noted that Bell Labs has developed a technology that allows you to make smaller towers. Their signal range is more limited than traditional ones, but they consume less power and are more suitable for transport in spacecraft. On Earth, Bell Labs towers are used to create 5G networks.
NASA wants to build a lunar base by 2028. The agency has allocated $ 370 million to create the technologies that will be necessary to solve this problem. They will be received by companies that work on solutions in the field of wireless communications, power generation, robotics and the like.
We will recall, it was previously reported that NASA transferred the first chartered flight of a private manned Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station.
Note that on May 30, SpaceX and NASA successfully launched the private Crew Dragon spacecraft to the ISS. For the first time in 11 years, American astronauts flew out of the Russian Soyuz.
