The company announced on March 17 that it had received funding from philippines cell phone database Draper Associates. The startup hopes to have its first system on the moon by 2024. This was reported by Space.Distributes.
On the Aquarian Space websiteWe are reading.That while humans are spending billions of dollars on lunar missions, there are no ways to get the information collected by scientific missions back to Earth as quickly as possible.
"Due to limited capabilities, it either takes a very long time to receive information collected from space missions, or it is simply sent piecemeal."
Aquarian wants to create a new system called Solnet that will provide the moon with internet speeds of 100 megabits per second via satellites.
The startup doesn’t reveal much about the details and specifications of the project, but it is being technically overseen by American partners, including NASA. NASA has its own program for similar projects — Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS). As part of the program, NASA is helping the private sector get involved in the process of creating the equipment needed for the Artemis mission.
"In 2021, there were 13 devices operating on and around the Moon, and by 2030, we need to increase that number to 200, and we need to create a multi-billion dollar lunar economy. And all of this will be impossible if we don't have fast enough internet between Earth and the Moon," Aquarian Space CEO Kelly Larson said in a statement.