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The well-known technology company Nokia has launched 4G LTE mobile network on Moon. But the company has expressed sadness that the phone call could not be made due to this. Nokia said in a statement that it has achieved success in some key aspects of its network operations on the moon. The company claims that it has successfully sent data and information from the moon to the ground station and mission control center on Earth.
The company has expressed sadness that it has not been able to achieve success in the voice call service due to insufficient solar energy. Nokia has launched the first mobile network on the moon in partnership with Intuitive Machines. However, due to lack of significant amount of energy, the company has not been able to make cellular calls, according to the statement.
According to Mobile World Live under GSMA, an organization of telecommunication service providers worldwide, this achievement of Nokia was expected because the company had already announced that its mobile network was ready for space missions at the beginning of 2025. Nokia's Lunar Surface Communication System has already been integrated into Intuitive Machines' IM-2 lander Athena.
This achievement paves the way for the cellular communication technology services needed by future lunar space missions, according to Nokia. The company said that the main reason for not being able to make cellular calls in this test was that the Athena lander did not receive enough solar energy after its solar panels were turned in a different direction when it landed on the lunar surface.
As the Lunar Surface Communication System received energy for 25 minutes, Nokia said that this system has successfully completed various tests such as data exchange. Thierry Klein, president of Nokia Bell Labs, said that there will be both small and large successes in space exploration. "We have operated the first cellular network on the moon," he said, "we are very proud of the achievement under difficult conditions."
This project, operated under NASA's "Tipping Point" program, established the first cellular network on the surface of the moon. According to Nokia, this system, which will use the latest 4G/LTE technology from Nokia Bell Labs, has been designed to withstand the harsh environment of the moon, extreme temperatures and radiation.
About 14.1 million US dollars have been spent for expanding the mobile network on the moon and NASA has said that the entire cost will be borne. Nokia has contributed technology to provide reliable communications services to NASA as it prepares to launch ambitious missions to the lunar surface, including the South Pole, and manage a lunar settlement.
