{"id":23243,"date":"2020-10-19T18:30:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T10:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/5g-on-the-moon-nasa-backs-nokias-space-communication-network-starting-with-lte\/"},"modified":"2020-10-19T18:30:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T10:30:46","slug":"5g-on-the-moon-nasa-backs-nokias-space-communication-network-starting-with-lte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/5g-on-the-moon-nasa-backs-nokias-space-communication-network-starting-with-lte\/","title":{"rendered":"5G on the Moon? NASA backs Nokia\u2019s space communication network starting with LTE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NASA recently unveiled the winners of its fifth round of Tipping Point technology innovators. Most funding goes toward demonstrating ways to refuel vehicles in space for sending heavier payloads to the Moon. One experiment being funded by NASA, however, is focused on bringing an essential Earth experience to space.<\/p>\n

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Bell Labs, Nokia\u2019s research arm, will be awarded $14.1 million to develop and deploy a lunar LTE communication system: <\/p>\n

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Inspired by terrestrial technology, Nokia proposes to deploy the first LTE\/4G communications system in space. The system could support lunar surface communications at greater distances, increased speeds, and provide more reliability than current standards.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nokia says that the initial 4G\/LTE technology it has developed for lunar deployment will later evolve to include 5G technologies \u2014 just in time for the iPhone 12 to make 5G mainstream on Earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mission-critical LTE network we have developed has been specially designed to withstand the extreme temperature, radiation, and vacuum conditions of space, as well as the sizable vibrational impact during launch and landing on the lunar surface,\u201d explains Nokia.<\/p>\n

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