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"After conquering the farthest corners of the globe, mobile phones are now destined for the final frontier - space.

Even in the cosmos there will be no escaping the ringtone as Nasa and the British National Space Centre (BNSC) prepare to trial a mobile phone network for the moon.

Astronauts and robots exploring the moon's surface will only be a text message away after the system goes live later this century.

The satellite system should ensure a full four-bar signal for lunar colonists living in the base Nasa wants to build at the south pole of the moon after 2020.

The stellar vision of the mobile's future even tops the effort that managed to get a text message to the top of Mount Everest.

Phone calls and other information would be bounced off satellites orbiting the moon for communication between colonists, the moon base and the earth.

The joint Nasa/BNSC MoonLite mission, due to be launched after 2012, will test a prototype version of the satellite phone network - similar to the Inmarsat network on Earth.

During the MoonLite mission a lunar astronaut would use the technology to transmit information about the structure of the moon back to earth from scientific instruments buried in the lunar soil."

http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39170084,00.htm?r=1

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Posted: 2008-02-20 12:25:14
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ill txt my mom when im on the moon! wahaaha
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Posted: 2008-02-20 13:13:03
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Id hate to see the bill for calls/sms/mms back to earth.. not to mention the data charges . the bill would be out of this world.
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Posted: 2008-02-21 10:10:17
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Being a NASA thing, and NASA being American, will it be a CDMA network? Cause in my opinion, CDMA won't exist much in 2020... GSM is where it's at.
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Posted: 2008-02-21 11:27:41
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