Nokia, NASA to launch 4G on the moon

NASA and Nokia are partnering to bring 4G to the moon, in a project to “pave the way for sustainable human presence” on other planets.

SpaceX is slated to launch the lander carrying 4G infrastructure to the moon’s south pole later this year and the network will then be remotely controlled from Earth. 

The network will initially connect two small roaming vehicles designed to search for ice at the lunar south pole, before being deployed for a wider range of communication capabilities.

“One of those vehicles, the Lunar Outpost rover, will explore the Shackleton Connecting Ridge,” Nokia said in a statement. “The other, the Micro-Nova hopper, will drive into a shadowed crater to scan for the first close-up evidence of lunar ice.”

The contract comes as part of NASA’s Tipping Point program, established to support the development of commercial space capabilities.

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