NASA is preparing to return to the Moon by 2024, and it wants its astronauts to have a reliable way to communicate with each other. To do this the space company tgvn of the United States addressed to Nokia.
The Finnish company will receive $ 14,1 million in funding for the development of a 4G network on the Moon.
Nokia announced today details about the project, and said that the development of the first LTE/4G communications system in space will be extremely vital to the program Artemis of NASA, which seeks to establish a small community on the Moon by 2030.
The announcement states:
“The network will provide critical communication capabilities for many different broadcast applications data, such as vital command and control functions, remote control of lunar rovers, real-time navigation and high-definition video streaming.”
Nokia said its solution will be "ultra-compact, low-power, space-hardy, end-to-end LTE" and will be deployed on the Moon by the end of 2022. The company plans to integrate the system of its wireless communications on the lunar surface in collaboration with Intuitive Machines, a privately held spacecraft design company based in Texas.
Once the project is delivered, the network will automatically adjust and create the first LTE communication system on the Moon, Nokia says.
