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Artist rendering of the Lunar Outpost Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform rover with Nokia antennas extended. The images, data and telemetry collected by MAPP will be sent back to the Nova-C lander over the Nokia 4G/LTE network and then relayed to Earth., and its first piece of the network might launch as soon as late this year.
Should all go according to plan, Nokia's 4G/LTE lunar network would provide more bandwidth than the traditional ultra-high frequency systems used for space communication. It would not only make communications quicker from astronaut to astronaut, but also for autonomous robotic systems on the moon. Plus, the network could eventually be adapted forContact me with news and offers from other Future brands"Just think about the scale of operations on the moon over the next 20 years.
"Having every single mission set up their own communications systems would make no sense economically. Instead, they will need to use the same infrastructure in the same locations and interlink all the different bases on the lunar surface. That is the role of a service provider," Klein added.
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