Submitted 4 weeks ago by pranjalmalewar@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.inceptivemind.com/nokia-deploy-first-cellular-network-moon/41831/
I know it kind of sounds silly, but this is some of the very first infrastructure on The Moon, and that’s pretty cool.
The Moon will likely be our main port for travel within our solar system - if we made a lunar space elevator we would use it as our launch point without having to expend so much fuel launching from Earth like we do with traditional rockets.
The moon rotates too slowly (about once every 30 days), you don’t want a space elevator for the moon, the tether would have to be ridiculously long.
But there’s no atmosphere, so you have another good option: a linear accelerator, or mass driver. Basically you make a very long, very straight rail and use magnetism to accelerate a craft right up to orbital velocity. The only complicated part is constructing 50 km of rail, but I mean, it’s more time consuming than complicated. This is actually way more feasible than a space elevator.
You still need to fire an engine on the far side of your orbit though which makes it more difficult as it still needs to be able to propel itself (while surviving the acceleration)
Wut? Impracticality aside, could they build such a “ridiculously long tether”? What’s they make it of? Musk farts? Can’t wait for him to bankrupt the u.s. and build a space elevator that breaks and shatters, ruining astronomy and prospects of drone explorations of Mars
A station and then a mine would imo make more sense for a first.
People really not feeling this in the current climate for sure
I dunno. What kind of service can you get with LowG™?
We believe delivering Nokia’s 4G/LTE system to the lunar surface is a transformative moment in the commercialization of space and the maturity of the lunar economy.
… I fucking hate capitalism.
Oh thank god. Was getting sick of only having hella overpriced and slow satellite internet there.
Nokia still exists?
Yeah, Eriksson too. Both pretty much abandoned their consumer phone business. They have pivoted to afaik mostly telecommunications infrastructure. But both companies do a bunch of other stuff.
That’s not a bad bet. Clearly telecommunications infrastructure is not going away and even radio towers are never going away until physics finds an alternative.
I do kinda miss Nokia’s creativity tho
yes
Meahtastic on the moon… Moontastix!
Nice, soon the moon will have better mobile connectivity than some rural areas in Germany.
SPACE SUCKS, FU SPACE PEOPLE
Lantern@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Absolutely love the lack of regulation for space. Going to love seeing the Google ^tm^ Moon in 50 years.
dotslashme@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Well, no regulation means we can be space pirates and fuuuuck Google up.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
They’ll be laws against that though.
x00z@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah these companies think just because they can they should.
Fuck 'em. The moon is part of the view from my garden.
I’ll fight for that.