NASA is working with Nokia and mission partners Intuitive Machines and Lunar Outpost to deploy a 4G LTE cellular network on the Lunar surface, technology that was commercially available on Earth since 2010. Communications will be a critically important component of any future planetary missions. The cellular technologies will enable a number of applications like high definition video streaming, remote monitoring of sensors and instruments, exchange of telemetry and biometric data, as well as rem

Fun Nokia Facts: Nokia was founded as a pulp-mill in 1865 and took the name from the small town where its second mill was located. Nokia moved into electricity generation and later partnered with rubber and cable manufacturing businesses becoming (locally) famous for making sturdy rubber boots. In the 1930s it began making respirators and by the 1960s the three partners had merged and began producing electronic devices. Through further mergers and acquisitions it found itself in the telecommunic