{"id":68211,"date":"2021-05-22T03:27:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T08:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68211"},"modified":"2021-05-22T03:27:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T08:27:38","slug":"68211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68211","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/europe-plans-lunar-navigation-constellation\">Europe unveils plans to bring \u2018GPS\u2019 and Skype to the moon with satellites.<\/a><\/p>\n<header>\n<div class=\"byline-social\">\n<p class=\"strapline\">Satellite navigation and teleconferencing could be available to lunar explorers by 2030.<\/p>\n<nav class=\"socialite-widget box less-space \" data-contexturl=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/europe-plans-lunar-navigation-constellation\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" block-image-ads hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/8HeJk7eHybZpUov2hfA9Ph-320-80.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/8HeJk7eHybZpUov2hfA9Ph-320-80.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/8HeJk7eHybZpUov2hfA9Ph-480-80.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/8HeJk7eHybZpUov2hfA9Ph-650-80.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/8HeJk7eHybZpUov2hfA9Ph-970-80.jpg 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/8HeJk7eHybZpUov2hfA9Ph-1024-80.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"SSTL and Telespazio lead two European consortia tasked with developing concepts of a lunar navigation and telecommunication constellation.\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/8HeJk7eHybZpUov2hfA9Ph.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/8HeJk7eHybZpUov2hfA9Ph.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<ul class=\"socialite-widget-ul\"><\/ul>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"box less-space hero-image-wrapper\"><span class=\"caption-text\">SSTL and Telespazio lead two European consortia tasked with developing concepts of a lunar navigation and telecommunication constellation.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">(Image credit: ESA)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"left-rail-area\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\" class=\"text-copy bodyCopy auto\">\n<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) has kicked off the development of a future satellite constellation that will orbit the moon and provide navigation and telecommunication services to lunar explorers.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes according to plan, the new system could be in place in the late 2020s, only a few years after the expected landing of NASA&#8217;s crewed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/topics\/artemis-program\" data-component-tracked=\"1\"><u>Artemis 3 mission<\/u><\/a>\u00a0near the lunar south pole.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-placeholder hawk-processed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\"><\/aside>\n<p>ESA believes that Earth&#8217;s celestial companion is set to become a busy destination in the coming years, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/astrobotic-peregrine-mission-pm1-patch\" data-component-tracked=\"1\"><u>commercial companies\u00a0<\/u><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/uae-moon-mission-ispace-lander-2022\" data-component-tracked=\"1\"><u>nations from across the world\u00a0<\/u><\/a>all wanting a slice of the &#8220;eighth continent.&#8221; The new constellation, called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/Corporate_news\/ESA_to_unveil_its_plans_for_lunar_satellites\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/Corporate_news\/ESA_to_unveil_its_plans_for_lunar_satellites\" data-component-tracked=\"1\"><u>Moonlight<\/u><\/a>, will make it easier and cheaper for a fledgling lunar economy to blossom, ESA officials suggested in a news conference on Thursday (May 20).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having a navigation and telecommunication network to relay what we learn on the moon back to Earth will be key for sustainability of future missions,&#8221; Elodie Viau, ESA&#8217;s director of telecommunications and integrated applications, said in the news conference. &#8220;You can imagine astronomers setting up observatories on the far side of the moon. And as we have all now become accustomed to virtual meetings, who knows? We could be doing Skype on the moon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe unveils plans to bring \u2018GPS\u2019 and Skype to the moon with satellites. Satellite navigation and teleconferencing could be available to lunar explorers by 2030. SSTL and Telespazio lead two European consortia tasked with developing concepts of a lunar navigation and telecommunication constellation.\u00a0(Image credit: ESA) The European Space Agency (ESA) has kicked off the development &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68211\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-now-for-something-completely-different"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68212,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68211\/revisions\/68212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}