{"id":250597,"date":"2018-02-28T12:49:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T10:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=250597"},"modified":"2018-02-28T12:51:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T10:51:32","slug":"the-moon-will-get-4g-coverage-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/250597-the-moon-will-get-4g-coverage-next-year.html","title":{"rendered":"The Moon will get 4G coverage next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone plans to create the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nokia.com\/en_int\/news\/releases\/2018\/02\/27\/nokia-is-selected-by-vodafone-to-be-its-technology-partner-for-mission-to-the-moon-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>first 4G network on the Moon<\/strong><\/a> to support a mission by PTScientists in 2019, and has appointed Nokia as its technology partner.<\/p>\n<p>PTScientists is working with Vodafone Germany and Audi to achieve the first privately-funded Moon landing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mission to the Moon&#8221; is due to launch in 2019 from Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Nokia will create a space-grade Ultra Compact Network that will be the lightest ever developed &#8211; weighing less than one kilogram.<\/p>\n<p>Vodafone&#8217;s network will connect two Audi lunar rovers to a base station in an Autonomous Landing and Navigation Module (ALINA).<\/p>\n<p>The 4G network will enable the Audi rovers to communicate and transfer scientific data and HD video.<\/p>\n<p>Vodafone testing indicates that the base station should be able to broadcast 4G using the 1,800MHz frequency band and send the first live HD video feed of the Moon&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n<p>This video stream will be broadcast to a global audience via a deep-space link.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/237636-the-balance-between-4g-and-5g.html\">The balance between 4G and 5G<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone will enable live streaming of HD video from the Moon&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":219524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2542,653,49153,1789],"class_list":["post-250597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-4g","tag-nokia","tag-the-moon","tag-vodafone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250675,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250597\/revisions\/250675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}