The phone company's network will support discoveries that could lay the groundwork for a human colony on the moon.
Nokia's years-long partnership with NASA is finally taking the mobile giant where no cell phone provider has gone before — the moon.
There, the Finnish telecommunications company plans to establish the first lunar 4G network, enabling researchers to make new discoveries that could help support the establishment of a human colony on the moon, "Future missions that require HD video, robotics, sensing applications, telemetry or biometrics will need the advanced capabilities that cellular networks enable," Nokia said on itsThose technologies will help researchers locate lunar ice, which could help sustain human life on...
This isn't the first time NASA has partnered with a telecommunications company to support its out-of-this-world objectives. In 2015, the agency partnered with Verizon to create technologies that would"direct and monitor" civilian and commercial drones across the U.S. from Verizon's expansive phone tower network, the Guardian
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