Nokia will partner with Intuitive Machines, a Texas-based private space craft design company, to ship equipment to the moon.
NASA’s goal is to take humans to the moon by 2024. The network will facilitate voice-video communication to astronauts.
Nokia has been selected by NASA to build the first cellular network on the moon, the Finnish company said on Monday that the US space agency was planning for the future that humans would return to the moon and establish settlements. NASA aims to take humans to the moon by 2024 and to have a long presence there under its Artemis program.
The network will be ready by the end of 2022
Nokia said that the first wireless broadband communication system in space would be built on the lunar surface in late 2022. The company will partner with Texas based private space craft design company Intuitive Machines to deliver Nokia’s equipment to the moon. Will configure and install 4G / LTE communication system on the moon, Nokia said – though the objective will eventually be to switch to 5G. The company said the network will provide astronauts with voice and video communication as well as telemetry and biometric data. Will also allow exchange and remote control to deploy and remote rovers and other robotic devices.
Network will work even under odd conditions
The network will be designed in such a way that it will be able to withstand the odd conditions of launching and landing on the moon. It will be sent to the moon in a very compact form to meet the extremely harsh size, weight and power shortage. Nokia said that we will use 4G / LTE instead of 5G network, which has been used worldwide for the last several decades. Has been and has proved its credibility. However the company will also ‘advance LTE’s successor technology, 5G’s space applications’.