According to reports from SlashGear Beijing on August 11th, the astronauts who walked on the moon next year can use smartphones to call the family to report their peace - if there is an astronaut landing on the moon next year.
The German start-up company, Part Time Scientists, plans to establish the first LTE base station on the surface of the moon next year.
Part Time Scientists plans to launch a lander to the moon by 2018 and “visit†the Apollo 17 spacecraft (launched in 1972, the last time NASA launched the Apollo spacecraft).
The company does not plan to use complex dedicated communication systems to transmit data from the lunar rover to the earth. Instead, it uses LTE technology - you are not mistaken, and it is the same as the mobile communication technology we use.
↑↑↑Alina Lunar Lander
Karsten Becker, head of embedded-electronics product development and integration at Part Time Scientists, told Space.com, “We are working with Vodafone to provide LTE base stations on the moon. Our goal is to Provides commercial services to transport the moon and also provides customers with services needed on the moon's surface."
Part Time Scientists signed a contract with Space X to use the Falcon 9 rocket to launch Alina on the moon at the end of 2018. Becker said that Part Time Scientists believes it will be the first private institution to land on the moon.
Becker said, “We will make a soft landing on the moon and release two lunar rover Audi Lunar Quatro. The lunar rover will sail to the location of the Apollo 17 spacecraft. The two lunar rover are essentially mobile phones. The captured video is sent back to Alina - acting as an LTE base station, and Alina transmits the data back to earth."
↑↑↑Audi Lunar Quatro Lunar Rover
The two lunar rover will take a closer look at the Apollo 17 spacecraft and learn about its changes over the moon's surface for 45 years.
Becker said, "Using LTE modems to transmit data consumes much less energy than communicating directly with the earth."
The lunar rover’s solar battery power is 90 watts, half of which is used to drive the lunar rover. Before that, the other half of the electric power was used to communicate directly with the earth. Becker said, "Using LTE technology, communication needs much lower energy consumption."
Becker said that through LTE base stations rather than directly communicating with the earth, it also solved the problem of adjusting the direction of the rover's antenna.
Becker said that due to the low temperature, Part Time Scientists expects that Alina and the rover will not be able to survive on the moon's night.
However, the experience and lessons of the first mission will be applied to follow-up missions. The company plans to establish a permanent communication facility on the surface of the moon in the future. He said, “We will show to the outside world that we can still perform the mission with the most popular communication technology on the moon. We will provide the most cost-effective solution to solve the problems caused by the establishment of the moon village.â€
月 Moon Village envisioned by the European Space Agency
According to Becker, Part Time Scientists plans to perform a second mission around 2020 to establish long-term communications facilities on the Moon.
Part Time Scientists is working closely with the European Space Agency, who proposed the moon village concept for the permanent survival of humans on the surface of the moon.
Alina payload is 100 kg. During the first mission, it will carry three customer payloads, including an experimental unit at NASA's Ames Research Laboratory.
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