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Lunar Astronauts To Have Mobile Phone Service

By Gizmodo US Edition on February 21, 2008 at 6:40 AM

NASA will definitely beat the Mt. Everest phone calls when they launch mobile phone service on the moon around 2012. Their MoonLite system will link astronauts, the lunar base and Earth via satellite. Even though there is over four years until launch, the service will only have a speed of 3kbps down/2kbps up. One small call for man…ah forget it. [Silicon.com via Newlaunches]


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  • Owza
    February 21, 2008 at 5:07 PM

    SO i rural Australia we can’t get signal yet they get signal on the moon!

    F**K YOU TELSTRA! You fail once again.

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