This was announced by the head of the Department of Space Systems for Basic and Applied Scientific Research at the Russian Tsimash Institute, Konstantin Raikunov, during his speech on the sidelines of the 36th International Scientific-Technical Conference “Advanced Robotics” held in St. Petersburg.

Raikunov explained that the laboratory will be the first consuming element of the nuclear energy that will be generated by the nuclear electrical station scheduled to be transported to the moon, noting that the laboratory will be distinguished by being equipped with a Wi-Fi 5G communication system.
He said: “This system will allow automatic scientific stations to be deployed over a wide area of ​​the moon’s surface and to collect information received from them.”

He added that the lunar counterpart to the Wi-Fi network will enable scientists to collect various data from automated scientific stations, including geological and seismic information, typical inertial data, as well as data about the moon’s entry and exit from the Earth’s magnetosphere.

All this data will be transmitted over the network to the Lunar Scientific Laboratory, where it will be recorded on special storage media before being sent to Earth through a powerful signal relay complex.

It is noteworthy that the Russian news agency “TASS” had previously reported that the International Lunar Scientific Station is a joint Russian-Chinese project aimed at establishing an integrated experimental research complex on the surface of the moon.

Project components include:

• A special system for moving between the Earth and the Moon,

• A system for operating devices on the moon’s surface for long periods.

• Field mobility system for conducting operations and research,

• specialized scientific equipment,

• Supportive ground systems and application software.

The project aims to study the moon and use its resources for peaceful purposes, within the framework of space scientific cooperation between Russia and China.

Source: TASS