Nokia Wins Bid to Build 4G Network on Moon - ComicBook.com

With a deadline of 2028 set in place for the United States to build its first lunar base on the surface of the moon, Nokia has won a contract to build the first-ever cellular network on the moon's surface.

While it won't feature cutting-edge 5G technology right away, NASA says Nokia's 4G network should provide more reliable communication from the lunar base to mission control on Earth.

Although NASA aims to have its lunar base established on the moon by 2028, Nokia says in a press releases it hopes to deploy the "first ultra-compact, low-power, space-hardened, end-to-end LTE solution" on the lunar surface in late 2022, just two years from now.

"Leveraging our rich and successful history in space technologies, from pioneering satellite communication to discovering the cosmic microwave background radiation produced by the Big Bang, we are now building the first ever cellular communications network on the Moon," Nokia CTO Marcus Weldon says in a release.