Called Crescent Space Services, the new company is being set up to meet the anticipated demand of upcoming lunar missions.
“infrastructure-as-a-service for lunar missions,” the company wrote in a press release. Crescent will operate its own network of satellites in lunar orbit to support spacecraft on and around the Moon, enabling uninterrupted communication between Earth and the lunar missions.The network, called Parsec, will use a constellation of small communication satellites built by Lockheed Martin. The first satellites are projected to launch in 2025.
Lockheed Martin alsoan application with the Federal Communications Commission to launch and operate 230 space stations, or user terminals, on the surface of the Moon, in addition to the satellites. Based on the filing, Lockheed Martin is anticipating a slew of upcoming missions to the Moon that would require its subsidiary’s services,to cell-phone servicesApollo astronauts used an S-band transponder to transmit signals, for exampleside facing Earth.
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