Coming soon: SMS on the moon?

NASA and the British National Space Centre are working together to put a network on the moon. The pair have set up a working group and reckon the cellular coverage could be in place within the next decade to help transmit data between lunar explorers and their earth-bound base.

The collaboration is set to result in a lunar exploration called MoonLITE, or Moon Lightweight Interior and Telecoms Experiment, scheduled to take off some time after 2012 and will see a communications link set up between the earth and the moon itself.

Wow. This could be the most remote mobile coverage ever.