News Alert: Moon to get first mobile phone network
Hello Friends,
Yes you heard it
right, the moon will get its 1st mobile network next year, consisting
high-definition streaming from the lunar landscape back to earth, part of a
project to back the first privately funded moon mission.
Vodafone Germany, network equipment maker Nokia and carmaker Audi said on Tuesday that they were working together to support the mission, 50 years after the first NASA astronauts walked on the moon.
Vodafone Germany, network equipment maker Nokia and carmaker Audi said on Tuesday that they were working together to support the mission, 50 years after the first NASA astronauts walked on the moon.
Vodafone said that they had appointed Nokia as their technology partner to develop a space-grade network which would be a small piece of hardware weighing less than a bag of salt.
These companies are working with Berlin-based company PTScientists on this project, with a launch scheduled in 2019 from Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Vodafone said.
"This project involves a radically innovative approach to the development of mobile network infrastructure," Vodafone Germany Chief Executive Hannes Ametsreiter said.
One executive involved in this said, the decision to build a 4G network rather a state-of-the-art 5G networks was taken because the next generation networks remain in the testing and trial stage and are not stable enough to ensure they would work from the lunar surface.
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