The radiation-hardened technology will get its first test in an upcoming mission to the lunar south pole.
  • 0x0
    33·
    4 days ago

    Not everyone is happy with this vision. LTE networks usually operate between 700 MHz and 2.6 GHz, a region of the radiofrequency spectrum that partially overlaps with frequencies reserved for radio astronomy. Having such radio signals coming from the moon could potentially interfere with observations.

    Commercial space flight doesn’t give a fuck about astronomers, just ask StarLink.

    • Nemeski@lemm.eeOP
      20·
      4 days ago

      Article also says:

      “For permanent deployment we’ll have to pick a different frequency band,” Klein says. “We already have a list of candidate frequencies to consider.”

      Maybe they can make it less interfering