covering the week's top tech stores with a slight linux bias well i can't even get good cell coverage coverage at my cottage nokia is working with nasa to bring 4g to the moon nasa's artemis mission aims to establish a long-term human presence on the moon as a stepping stone toward mars colonization and to get things started nasa is extending 370 million dollars to 14 companies to provide the technology for the program from robotics to power generation and even cryogenics but it makes sense that these teams will need to be able to communicate with the mother planet the new network will be designed specifically for lunar conditions able to withstand the extreme temperature shifts and radiation the tech will also utilize small cell tech which as the name suggests is significantly smaller than the tall cell towers they are used to seeing here on earth they also use a lot less power the plan is for a lunar lander to carry the 4g communication system to the lunar surface in 2022 nokia's bell labs has been granted 14.1 million dollars for their part thanks for watching the category 5 tv newsroom don't forget to like and subscribe for all your tech news with a slight linux bias and if you appreciate what we do become a patron at patreon.com category5 from the category 5 dot tv newsroom i'm becca ferguson [Music] foreign