Finnish company Nokia is preparing to send a 4G workstation to the Moon in late 2023, in hopes of accelerating the discovery of mobile communications on the Earth’s satellite and eventually paving the way for a human presence on the Moon.
The Finnish telecommunications group plans to launch the network on Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket, Nokia chief engineer Luis Maestro Ruiz De Temino told reporters. The network will be powered by an antenna-equipped base station developed by US space company Intuitive Machines, as well as a solar-powered lunar rover, CNBC reported.
Nokia says the technology is designed to withstand the extreme conditions of space. Notably, the network will be used by NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, which aims to send the first astronauts to the lunar surface since 1972.
Nokia said the goal is to show that terrestrial networks can meet the communications needs of future space missions, adding that its network will allow astronauts to communicate with each other and with mission control, as well as control a remote lunar rover.
It is clear that such an action is more self-promotion than really necessary. However, launching Tesla into space with a mannequin is no better.
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