Nokia to Provide Cell Service on the Moon (and Other Space Stories)

Have you heard the news yet? I bet you have. Nokia (NYSE: NOK), the company that started out producing paper in Finland, evolved into the world's largest cellphone company, then lost that franchise and refocused on telecom infrastructure instead, has just won a $14 million NASA contract to build a 4G wireless cellphone network on the moon!

Integrated into a lunar lander spacecraft that will make moonfall in 2022, Nokia's central 4G system will permit lunar rovers (which will arrive later) to communicate with their base camp, and from there with orbiting spacecraft and Earth itself. That's pretty impressive -- but Nokia's contract was just one of 15 total contracts that NASA handed out last week, totaling $370 million in combined value.

Here are a few of those other contracts that you may have missed. 

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