Finnish multinational telecommunications and electronics company Nokia has been selected by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to construct the first 4G wireless broadband communications network on the moon as part the American space agency's efforts to return humans to the moon by 2024 and build long-term settlements under the Artemis program. NASA will be paying Nokia's American division 14.1 million US dollars for the network. Nokia reported that the cellular network would be built on the moon in the later months of 2022 prior to the arrival of humans.

Nokia will partner with Intuitive Machines, a Texas-based private drone and spacecraft design firm to deliver the cellular networking equipment on their lunar lander. Following the delivery, the network will be reconfigured and established as the first Long-Term Evolution (LTE) communications system on the moon to provide communication capabilities for "data transmission applications including vital command and control functions, remote control of lunar rovers, real-time navigation and streaming of high definition video".

In the past day, Nokia's stock jumped just under 3.8% from 3.44 Euros and closing at 3.54 Euros. 

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