Nokia says it has been tapped by NASA to assemble the first cellular communications network on the moon.

The Finnish telecommunications hardware creator said Monday its Nokia Bell Labs division will construct a 4G correspondences framework to be sent on a lunar lander to the moon’s surface in late 2022.

NASA is awarding $370 million to 14 companies to give innovation to the Artemis moon-landing program. The program’s point is to set up a drawn out human presence on the moon as a get ready for missions to Mars.

Nokia delivered more subtleties of its association following a declaration a week ago by NASA, which said it was giving the company’s U.S. unit $14.1 million for the network.

The U.S. space office is additionally funding different developments in cryogenic liquid administration, lunar surface advancement, and drop and landing capacity.

Nokia’s network will give basic interchanges capacities to errands space travelers should complete, similar to controller of lunar meanderers, continuous route and superior quality video streaming, the company said.

The equipment incorporates a base station, reception apparatuses and programming and is intended to withstand unforgiving dispatches and lunar arrivals and outrageous conditions in space.

Nokia is partnering with U.S. company Intuitive Machines, which NASA decided to assemble a little “hopper lander” that can get to lunar pits and complete high-goal reviews of the lunar surface over a short separation.

“Reliable, resilient and high-capacity communications networks will be key to supporting sustainable human presence on the lunar surface,” Nokia’s chief technology officer, Marcus Weldon, said.