The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Artemis program intends to house humans on the Moon for a long time, but without an effective telecommunications system, even text messages cannot be sent. In response, NASA selected Nokia of Finland to deploy a 4G network on the Moon.
D, RFI’s correspondent, Sunday (October 25, 2020) under the French “NOUVELLES TECHNOLOGIES” column, two American astronauts, a man and a woman, hold hands on the surface of the Moon in 2024. Jumping on. This is one of the imaginary images of the American Artemis Project 3. The goal is to establish a permanent base on the Moon for future manned launches to Mars.
But there was one small problem. Without the Internet, the Moon would remain the largest empty space in the history of telecommunications. For this reason, NASA has signed a contract with a Finnish subsidiary of Nokia for nearly $14 million to deploy a 4G network necessary for the Artemis program. The telecommunications equipment will be installed in a small automated transport device developed in Houston and is scheduled to be sent to the moon by 2022.
NASA’s requirements for Nokia include compactness, lightness and energy efficiency, the ability to withstand the extreme conditions of space, and the endurance to withstand acceleration during liftoff and collision during a lunar landing. In addition, lunar cell phone networks will need to be self-configuring and self-maintaining, as it will be difficult to deploy technicians to perform maintenance on the Moon in the future.
Lunar 4G/5G Networks
The lunar 4G network will be used to command and control sensors in real time, drive lunar automata, and transmit data such as high-resolution video and audio. According to Nokia, the first wireless 4G network on the Moon will soon be developed into 5G.
After the Moon, there will be Mars. Dreams of a vast telecommunications network pointing to the stars in the distant future.
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