{"id":7694,"date":"2020-11-04T17:12:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T17:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=7694"},"modified":"2020-11-04T17:12:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T17:12:24","slug":"nokia-has-been-awarded-14-1m-to-build-a-cellular-network-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/nokia-has-been-awarded-14-1m-to-build-a-cellular-network-on-the-moon\/7694\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia has been awarded $14.1m to build a cellular network on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"
The LTE\/4G cellular network on the Moon will aim to facilitate long-term lunar habitability, providing communications for key aspects such as lunar rovers and navigation. Radio frequency interference (RFI) is a great issue for radio astronomers. Jodrell Bank \u2013 the earliest radio astronomy observatory in the world still in existence \u2013 was created because of RFI. Whilst studying at the University of Manchester, UK, Sir Bernard Lovell, one of the pioneers of radio astronomy, found that RFI from passing trams in the city were a major obstacle in his work, and he persuaded the university to let him move to their fields in Cheshire to continue his studies.<\/p>\n
Since then, radio telescopes have been built more and more remotely in an attempt to avoid RFI, with the upcoming Square Kilometre Array<\/a> (SKA) telescope being built across remote areas of South Africa and Australia. This helps to cut out many common sources of RFI, including mobile phones and microwave ovens. However, ground-based radio telescopes cannot completely avoid space-based sources of RFI such as satellites \u2013 or a future lunar telecommunications network.<\/p>\n Nokia of America\u2019s new cellular network on the Moon could eliminate RFI and give astronomers access to more reliable data. This new development will also minimise interference from the Earth\u2019s atmosphere, which significantly reduces the quality of the photographs taken of space.<\/p>\nNASA\u2019s funding to support the Artemis programme<\/h3>\n