The Moon may now have a better wireless signal than your local coffee shop. In a test NASA and MIT researchers showed off a fancy new rig that uses pulses of laser light to shoot data across the vast distances between Earth and our satellite some 238,900 miles away.
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The team made history last year when their Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) transmitted data over the 384,633 kilometers between the moon and Earth at a download rate of 622 megabits per second, faster than any radio frequency (RF) system. They also transmitted data from the Earth to the moon at 19.44 megabits per second, a factor of 4,800 times faster than the best RF uplink ever used.
It sounds cool in theory, but it will be different on practice.
The thing is that who will control that station on the moon? That is the question which is of great interest to all of the governments nowadays. It is quite the same as with starlink. Perhaps, you don’t know but the vast majority of officials claim that they will block the signal from starlink and surely, they justify it by their concerns about national security. So, I feel that even if Americans manage to do that, this kind of internet access will be unavailable for us as the governments are usually jelaous of the access to alternative information.
You are wrong. Moon being tidally locked with earth means (or results from the fact) that it’s orbital period is the same as that of earths rotation. So we always see the same face
Take out a nice pair of binoculars, or a small telescope tonight and you’ll be able to see huge craters and ancient lava plains. Look again tomorrow, and you’ll be able to see… the exact same things. As you know, our modest moon only shows us one face. Ever. If you could look at the moon orbiting the Earth from above, you’d see that it orbits once on its axis exactly as long as it takes to orbit once around our planet. It’s always turning, showing us exactly the same face.