Astronauts phone home
By Nick Heath, 25 February 2008 10:46
In space no one can hear your ringtone - something that could be a blessing from 2012 when Nasa and the British National Space Centre (BNSC) trial a mobile phone network on the moon.
The joint Nasa/BNSC MoonLite mission, due to be launched after 2012, will test a prototype version of the satellite phone network using an orbiter, seen in a mock-up here, to communicate with four probes buried in the lunar soil.
Photo credit: BNSC
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1. GALLEY SLAVE#41
Is nowhere safe from these inane ring tones.
I wonder what the roaming charge is!!!
ASTONOMICAL I expect.