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NASA to build phone network on the Moon?
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Posted on Monday, February 25 2008 @ 05:30:17 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck |
NASA and the British National Space Centre (BNSC) are preparing to trial a mobile phone network for the moon:
Astronauts and robots exploring the moon's surface will only be a text message away after the system goes live later this century.
The satellite system should ensure a full four-bar signal for lunar colonists living in the base Nasa wants to build at the south pole of the moon after 2020.
The stellar vision of the mobile's future even tops the effort that managed to get a text message to the top of Mount Everest.
Phone calls and other information would be bounced off satellites orbiting the moon for communication between colonists, the moon base and the earth.
The joint Nasa/BNSC MoonLite mission, due to be launched after 2012, will test a prototype version of the satellite phone network - similar to the Inmarsat network on Earth.
More info at Silicon.com.
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