The moon will get its first mobile phone network next year, enabling high-definition streaming from the lunar landscape back to earth, part of a project to back a privately funded moon mission. Vodafone Germany, network equipment maker Nokia and carmaker Audi said on Tuesday they were working together to support the mission, 50 years after the first NASA astronauts walked on the moon. Next year, we’ll be teaming up with @Nokia and @PTScientists to install a 4G network on the moon and send back the first ever live HD video feed of the surface. A simulation of a Vodafone project to install a 4G mobile phone network on the moon in 2019 was on display during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on Feb. 27. Five companies have been awarded $5.25 million for their progress so far, and some say they plan to launch in 2018.

Source: CBC News March 01, 2018 14:23 UTC