{"id":916144,"date":"2026-10-01T04:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916144\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T04:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:26:12","slug":"nasa-awards-contract-to-develop-5g-communications-for-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916144\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA awards contract to develop 5G communications for Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NASA.jpg.webp\" rel=\"lightbox\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NASA.jpg.webp\" class=\"alignright lazyload\" width=\"300px\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 700px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 700\/500;\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA has awarded Modulate Space Corporation a contract to develop key elements of a 5G communications system for use on the lunar surface, with built-in Wi-Fi 6, for NASA\u2019s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said the work will be organised into two primary areas intended to develop a scalable, standards-based communications capability designed to support future Moon Base surface operations.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c5G System and Lunar Surface Communications Evaluation and Radio Propagation Measurements\u201d contract is a firm-fixed-price award valued at about US$38 million. NASA said the performance period for the \u201c5G Network-in-a-Box Development and Lab Demonstration\u201d runs from Thursday, Oct. 1, through Jan. 31, 2028. The performance period for the \u201cLunar 5G and Wi-Fi Integrated Surface Network and Flight Demonstration on the Lunar Surface\u201d runs from Monday, Nov. 30, through Dec. 31, 2028.<\/p>\n<p>NASA said the demonstrations are intended to support development of hardware, firmware and software for an integrated lunar communications system, and to provide insight into system architecture and operational performance as the technology evolves for future lunar surface communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA has awarded Modulate Space Corporation a contract to develop key elements of a 5G communications system for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[315929,49,48,6294,307,66],"class_list":["post-916144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-5g-communications","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}