Posted on 02/28/2018 7:40:07 AM PST by BenLurkin
Vodafone Germany has teamed with Nokia to build the first 4G network on the moon. The network, which will be built in 2019, will support a private lunar rover mission by the Berlin-based team Part Time Scientists, known as PTScientists.
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The moon's 4G network, which Vodafone Germany announced Tuesday (Feb. 27), will support PTScientists' twin Audi Quattro rovers and their lander ALINA (short for Autonomous Landing and Navigation Module). PTScientists will use its rovers to study the lunar rover used by the Apollo 17 astronauts during their historic December 1972 mission to the moon's Taurus-Littrow Valley.
Vodafone picked Nokia to build a space-worthy version of its Ultra Compact Network, one that will be the lightest ever made, at just 2.2 lbs. (1 kilogram) — no heavier than a bag of sugar, Vodafone representatives said in a statement.
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Under the plan, PTScientists' ALINA lander will use the 4G network to beam the first live HD video feed from the surface of the moon. The signal, which will operate in the 1,800-MHz frequency band, "will be broadcast to a global audience via a deep space link that interconnects with the PTScientists server in the Mission Control Centre in Berlin," according to the statement.
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Alice Kramden, please pick up the white courtesy phone ...
I wonder how many calls they will get from Heather at Credit Card Services?
So liberals will be able to use their smartphones when they move to the moon and start their own world?
It’s still too far to call earth, right?
Excellent.
Well Alice needs the phone service.
Maybe they’ll build one that works where I live?
“Roaming charges per minute?”
“Alice Kramden, please pick up the white courtesy phone ...”
Thankfully, I put down my drink prior to seeing this.
Will it also be available on the dark side?
I heard they considered naming it River Wireless.
“Roaming charges per minute?”
Hah...you won’t find that out until you get your bill.
So, does the U.S. have air rights ?
Ping times to Jupiter are a bitch!
Why? Is there a big demand for that? Are future astros gonna be jonse’n for their porn?
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