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Nokia to build mobile network on the moon – iTnews
Initially 4G/LTE, with planned expansion to 5G.
Nokia has been selected by NASA to build the first cellular network on the moon, the Finnish company said, as the US space agency plans for a future where humans return there and establish lunar settlements.
NASA aims to return humans to the moon by 2024 and dig in for a long-term presence there under its Artemis programme.
Nokia said the first wireless broadband communications system in space would be built on the lunar surface in late 2022, before humans make it back there.
It will partner …
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