The Finnish telecommunications equipment maker said Monday its Nokia Bell Labs division will build a 4G communications system to be deployed on a lunar lander to the moon's surface in late 2022.
Nokia released more details of its involvement after an announcement last week by NASA, which said it was giving the company's U.S. unit $14.1 million for the network. The U.S. space agency is also funding other innovations in cryogenic fluid management, lunar surface innovation, and descent and landing capability.
The equipment includes a base station, antennas and software and is designed to withstand harsh launches and lunar landings and extreme conditions in space.
What is the MEANING OF JUSTICE? HUMAN RIGHTS?
Soo. Cellphone service on the moon. But if you live in a rural area your out of luck.
Good choice, it'll last forever!
Nokia wants to become the first or the one in only
FUCK how About contact tracing, testing, medicine, developing a vaccine , and feeding America!!!!!
Seems like a good use of resources 🤔
Time to pollute the moon..
Who?
TRump thanks for handing that work to another country! 😤😤😤
That sounds like an interesting project . . . Mask up, vote for new leadership in DC, and care for all. =
Nearly We destroyed the earth now its time to destroy the moon humans will never learn
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faster service ♥️
For what lol
So it’s going to be trash then
Wow
That’s typical. The government spending money on a network with no subscribers.
albast_firas
Nokia is a superb company. Full of innovators and I am delighted to see them on the rise again. The mobile phone business died but the network side has exceeded expectations from when I was with them. Brilliant Nokia
Even the moon isn’t getting 5G yet
They probably have a whole city built on the moon already.😒
This is definitely cool, but it comes when rural communities don’t have reliable and affordable access to wireless internet.
back from the dead, straight to space baby
Amazing to know that even the Moon will have 4G coverage! One can only imagine what will come next! ...maybe Germany? 😱
That’s pretty cool
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6g
Great! Now you can go to the moon and get 💩y cell service.
I hate this fucking country
Holy shit!!!!!? Nokia still exists
But what about that alien base on the other side of the moon? Did we reach some agreement with them that the government is hiding? What are the aliens getting in return?
Hey guys Nokia sucks! I felt like that needed to be said, since we are all thinking it.
My internet goes out when it’s cloudy
how about y'all worry about this planet first.
Waste of fucking money.
LEAVE THE MOON ALONE
Good!! I was near the Schrödinger crater the other day and all I got was cosmic static.....
Awesome 😂
Fuck Nokia
Fierce, my stubborn Nokia.😂
Nobody lives on the moon, this is a stupid plan
Wait for the moonlings to start protesting
Lunacy!
THIS IS THE NEWS? FFS.
Hi, I have rural Kentucky on Line 1.
This just breaks my heart. No. Just... no.
Okay. Whoopedy do.
Hi yes I would prefer healthcare to moon phonecalls.
Is this the moon news? Sad. They should make the heat shields on the next space shuttle out of indestructible Nokia 3310s
Didn't even know Nokia still existed
Fuuuucccck no
I think it would be even better if all of Wisconsin had even, fast coverage before the moon does. How crazy is that?!?
Who TF are we calling from the moon
Astronauts love their Netflix, 'Nokia's network will provide critical communications capabilities for tasks astronauts will need to carry out, like remote control of lunar rovers, real-time navigation and high-definition video streaming, the company said.'
Nokia still exists?!
Why
Retarded
Spoiler alert?
Wait, was this the news? Seriously? Who fucking cares?
$370 million doesn’t seem like enough money to build cellular service on the moon. Something ain’t right.
Man, now I can’t even get away from spam political texts on the moon.
Great, so now even people on the Moon will have better coverage than AT&T in NYC
I'd love consistent coverage in my house. Sounds like a grift
DestinyDreadful this the moon news?
Why do my calls still get dropped here on Earth?
Roaming fees are gonna be costly!
Haha they probably should work on getting a the plans for a colony before they worry about that
That will take a lot of really tall towers, since the lack of an atmosphere/ionosphere means line of sight, and satellites in lunar orbit are unstable.
No! FFS no! We need to fix all the shit we broke on this planet before we start hauling piles of future trash to the Moon. Jesus.
No offense to Finland but I would have expected NASA to use an American company.
Only 4G? We are moving to 5G very soon and they will be lucky to pull this off in 10 years.
Rural areas? The Bermuda triangles between big cities? Anywhere outside nyc? In tunnels? Underground? THESE ARE PLACES TO START. NOT THE FKN MOON
Why?
for what purpose? Talk to aliens?
Why?
Nokia will construct an asteriod-proof network that will somehow still work after the Sun goes supernova.
So... it's just gonna be a bunch of Astronauts playing Snake without a signal?
Yikes, paying a foreign company to build cell service where no Americans live? What is this?
Alright! Meanwhile our kids have type 2 diabetes and the oceans are full of plastic! But astronauts need good reception up there
Who the hell thinks this is necessary
“Federal agents mad 'cause I'm flagrant Tap my cell and the phone in the spaceship”
For who tho?
Hey Nokia no one lives on the moon
I don't want to live on this planet anymore. Or the moon.
Is it just a massive box of original 3310's? It is, isn't it?
Why? Why do we need service on the moon?
this was the big moon news? this sucks.
Why I can't even get a good signal in my damn living room
How bout we dont ruin the moon with dumb bullshit
I had no idea that a lack of cell coverage on the moon was a pressing issue. I mean, all these problems we have and this is how they want to spend money? Its not exploration or real scientific study, its a fucking vanity project that no one currently or anytime soon needs.
So they want to build a base on the moon and they thought the FIRST priority was...cell service? I.... (Would be great if NASA could spend a few billion on figuring out how to keep Earth inhabitable...ya know where there's already AIR and WATER! Fuck!)
Who?
Thats space-ist! Why not build a cell communication network, on the sun?!
oh did you think we forgot about the moon? lol no we're gonna trash that too
Good to see the smart thinkers of the world are focusing their minds on the real problems. Some day a problem may come along that threatens millions, worldwide so, let’s take care of these moon issues, now, before we need them elsewhere.
Whitey’s On the Moon
Why
Boring
Reminds me of that Kodak deal. The Trump admin is obsessed with nonsensical corporate tie-ins with brands that haven't been relevant since the last time Trump had a TV show.
cool this sucks donkey nuts
The moon. Where the next 'offshore' call centres will be based
Millions of families don’t have access to WiFi in the midst of a pandemic and distance learning but yeah spend ridiculous amounts of money on this.
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LOL and they are installing teh super fast 4G not the Newest 5G ...What gives with that..You want to install the 5G here and are working with Trumpo to block Huawei roll out... for me that says you have no confidence in your own network you wont deploy on Moon ....SAD
Wait....there's going be cellular network on the moon And i still can't get a signal in rural NB?
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Makes sense my Nokia phone is the only cell phone I never broke.
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Technological advances beautiful to behold
Just what I need, cell phone coverage on the moon.
there was a time Nokia was the iphone of the netscape/myspace days…didn’t know they exists still… next you’ll tell me NEXT an NYNEX are alive.
Will it be 5G?
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