[ad_1] Although the surface communication system for the Nokia Bell Labs landed safely on the surface of the moon on the Athena Lander, it is no longer possible to achieve one of the task goals: setting the first cellular call on the moon. On the bright side, Nokia managed to successfully deploy the LTE network to the Moon Antarctic area of the moon. The company also managed to verify the main aspects of the network operation, including transferring operational data to the Earth Station of the intuitive machine and the mission control center in Nokia on the ground. In space exploration there are great successes and small successes. We delivered and published the first cellular network on the moon and we are incredibly proud of the results we achieved despite the very difficult circumstances. If our devices are operating when our network is operated in a box, all indicators tell us that we were able to complete the first cellular call on the moon. Thierry E. Klein, President of Bell Labs Solutions Research in Nokia, March 2025 Since the Athens Unit did not land properly, it made it impossible for the rest of the task to achieve all the main goals, and the company's shares It lost more than half of its value.
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Nokia fails to make the first cellular phone call on the Moon, but it’s not all bad
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