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Moon to Get 4G Network

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday February 28 2018, @12:41AM   
from the big-roaming-charges dept.

PastTense writes:

Vodafone and Nokia have joined forces to bring 4G to a barren, characterless expanse (no, we don't mean Surrey suburbia). From 2019 LTE will be available on the moon.

The network is intended to support a mission by Berlin company PTScientists, along with Vodafone Germany and Audi, to achieve the first privately funded Moon landing.

Mission to the Moon is due to launch in 2019 from Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Vodafone's network will be used to set up the Moon's first 4G network, connecting two Audi Lunar Quattro rovers to a base station in the Autonomous Landing and Navigation Module (ALINA).

The base station should be able to broadcast 4G using the 1800 MHz frequency band and send back live HD video feed of the Moon's surface, which will be broadcast to a global audience via a deep space link.

4G found on Moon

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Original Submission

• To the Moon, Alice! To the Moon, Alice! (Score: 2, Interesting) by DECbot on Wednesday February 28 2018, @01:21AM (1 child)

  by DECbot (832) on Wednesday February 28 2018, @01:21AM (#644906) Journal

  So, it's official. We're deporting driverless cars back to where they came from. Let's hope Audi is sending electric version of the Quattro because the gas and diesel versions might have problems meeting emissions standards and the barren moon would require a bit more engineering for an air breathing engine than the Audi/VW engineers might be capable of conducting as the standard defeat device isn't going to work here.

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• Re:To the Moon, Alice! (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday February 28 2018, @07:57AM

  by c0lo (156) on Wednesday February 28 2018, @07:57AM (#645026) Journal

  would require a bit more engineering for an air breathing engine than the Audi/VW engineers might be capable of conducting as the standard defeat device isn't going to work here.

  On the positive side, they can crank up the compression ratio to zillions to one without NOX emissions.

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