Nokia Awaits Activation of 4G Network on Moon Delivered by SpaceX

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SpaceX will deliver Nokia's 4G network to the moon this year.

The Impending launch of the 4G Network of Nokia on the moon has been announced.
SpaceX will carry it to the lunar surface and will be a highlight of technological development.
Powering the lunar network is a base station in the Nova-C lunar lander.

Nokia is a technology innovator that will soon deploy its 4G network on the moon this year. SpaceX will carry the device that will have the devices establish a working internet link on the lunar surface.

Nokia Innovates in Partnership with SpaceX

An object of the tech firm is to use 4G as a tool to enable lunar discoveries and prepare humans to stay on the moon as well, reported CNBC.

Sources reveal the Finnish telecommunications group wants a tie-up with SpaceX to have the network running soon. Nokia's principal engineer, Luis Maestro Ruiz De Temino, stated this as a goal at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress trade show. This network function with an antenna-equipped base station in a Nova-C lunar lander developed by U.S. space firm Intuitive Machines. It will come with a rover with solar panels, cites Space.

Linking the lander and rover with an excellent old LTE link so the two are always connected. The location where the infrastructure will be set down is the Shackleton crater on the moon's south end.

The Finnish firm added that the system is durable to survive the harsh extreme of the space. It will be used by the Artemis 1 mission of NASA, which will be the first humans on the lunar surface after the Apollo mission in 1972.

The Artemis 1 mission (NASA) will send the first human astronauts to walk on the moon's surface since 1972.

SpaceX To Deliver 4G Network to the Moon

One of the goals of deploying a wireless network on the lunar body is this technology is applicable to be used in space missions. The tech firm added that the network could connect astronauts in space or link-ups with mission control. But mostly to have real-time remote access to the lunar rover at all times with video and telemetry information in real-time!

Maestro Ruiz De Temino explained the rocket would orbit the moon, and the moon lander would detach to make its way via a pre-planned trajectory with independent rockets to touch down on the surface. Anshel Sag added that in 2023 it would be a target to send the equipment.

One of the goals of the lunar network is to locate lunar ice because if it's found on a dry surface, then it's something else. Other missions to the moon have found lunar ice at the moon's poles. Water is a vital resource for people on the lunar surface to be used for drinking and making rocket fuel and oxygen for astronauts there.

Sag states that later expeditions will use it to explore earth's satellites and a make-or-break test of its viability. If it works, it is commercially applicable or even as communication for space mining requiring connectivity. Mining will need support structures in place and utilize the data required for the location of resources. Nokia and its 4G network that will be on the moon as infrastructure will probably be delivered by SpaceX this year.