This 4G feather had a shorter than expected shelf life, but even if the mission had succeeded, the pen would still be short -lived. Dow says that it was not supposed to survive the hard lunar night, which begins in about 9 days (a lunar day and a lunar night are each the equivalent of around 14 earthly days). In fact, the whole Mission IM-2 had to end at this time, because the solar cells of the equipment would not have the energy to supply the devices. For the Artemis III mission, the network and the modules of the space combinations will be built to survive the extreme temperatures of the Moon, which can become as hot as 250 degrees Fahrenheit or as cold as -208 degrees.
Over time, the objective is to establish permanent basic stations. “Once you have robust connectivity, you can see how you can have a basic infrastructure to support all the visions that people talk about,” Dow says.
The 4G LTE communications that will be integrated into the Axiom spatial combination in the future will be able to communicate from the astronaut to Lander and astronaut to the astronaut. There will be no smartphone for astronauts to stand their heads. “It will be a bit like driving in your hands-free car,” explains Russell Ralston, executive vice-president of the extradehicular activity at Axiom Space. The combination microphones will be activated by the voice, and the network will be able to manage several HD video flows in real time, not to mention the telemetry and the data from the integrated sensors.
So why not 5g? The current generation mobile network provides significant improvements in relation to its predecessor after all. Dow says that the development of space takes a long time and that Nokia wanted to start with a technology that has been tested with solidity. At the time, 5G was still in its early adoption phase and, for tests, these additional capacities were not necessary. “We are absolutely working on the evolution of 5G,” he says. If you are wondering if Nokia will be the only Networks supplier on the Moon, Dow claims that a multi-candlestick environment will be largely flexible because Nokia uses standardized technology with interoperability.
Michael López-Alegría, chief astronaut at Axiom Space, spent time on the international space station from 2006 to 2007, and also commanded Axiom-1 in 2022-The first mission of commercial crew astronaut at the ISS. He says that on the Apollo missions, astronauts were strongly trained on geology, and while the astronauts of Artemis III follow a similar training, the ability to send a high definition video of the moon to more qualified people at home changes the game.
“Now they can show a geologist on earth [the things they’re seeing] Instead of making them learn everything that a doctorate knows, ”explains López-Alegría. “They can use it as a tool, a bit as we do on the ISS today. I think it’s a jump, and it’s 50 years later, right? It should therefore be.
The IM-2 was the only programmed test on the Nokia 4G network on the moon. This was only partially successful, but Nokia did not share if there would be another test now that the IM-2 concluded suddenly. Dow says that the company will continue to do earth tests before Artemis III.
