The Moon is a better place to browse Internet or download data than some rural parts of the UK as users can get broadband speed of a little less than 20mbps there.
MIT and Nasa have broken records with its new broadband transmissions speeds on Earth’s satellite, where it is now possible to receive large amounts of data and stream video and audio.
A download speed of 19.44mbps was achieved through a laser-powered communication uplink through RF signals, along with an upload speed of 622mbps, which is 4,800 times faster than the previous record, reports British daily The Independent.
With the Moon being 284,633km away from Earth, the connection is dependent on its rotation around our planet (laser telescopes beam the data through columns of air which experience bending effects from the atmosphere).
“Communicating at high data rates from Earth to the moon with laser beams is challenging because of the 400,000-kilometre distance spreading out the light beam,” Mark Stevens of MIT Lincoln Laboratory told Wired.
“It’s doubly difficult going through the atmosphere, because turbulence can bend light-causing rapid fading or dropouts of the signal at the receiver,” he added.
