NASA will bring 4G to the moon with Nokia
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To achieve its goal of building a lunar base and sustaining human life there, NASA has allocated 370 million dollars to the benefit of a dozen hi-tech companies to develop technologies to be installed on the lunar surface.
Among the innovations commissioned, NASA has asked for remote power generation, cryogenic freezing, various robotics items, safe landing systems and finally a 4G network, which in the future will evolve into 5G. "Because in what other way", cries the CNN that reports the news, "astronauts will be able to take their golf shots or selfies on the lunar rovers?"
Seriously, NASA is of the opinion that 4G could provide more reliable and longer distance communications than the radio systems currently in use.
The project has been allocated $ 14.1 million to benefit Nokia's Bell Labs, which will develop partnerships with specific engineering companies to build a 4G-LTE network.
Lunar 4G should even perform better than Earth's. On the lunar surface there are in fact no trees, buildings or television signals that interfere.
The lunar cellular network will be designed according to the specific characteristics of the lunar soil: it will have to withstand extreme temperatures, radiation and the space vacuum. It will also have to remain operational even when moon landings or shuttle departures are in progress, resisting the vibrations produced.
Bell Labs says astronauts will use the mobile network primarily to transmit data wirelessly, maneuver rovers, verify the geographic location of objects in real time, and ultimately support high-definition video streaming.
While 4G networks on earth are supported by gigantic cell towers with huge power and radio generators, Bell Labs claims that it has designed a smaller cellular technology for the moon that uses less electricity and is therefore easier to manage. carry on rockets. This technology was derived from that developed for 5G .
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/la-nasa-portera-il-4g-sulla-luna-con-nokia/ on Tue, 20 Oct 2020 07:04:57 +0000.