{"id":1003971,"date":"2026-04-21T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003971"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:33:13","slug":"nokia-to-offload-modul8-space-communications-business-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/21\/nokia-to-offload-modul8-space-communications-business-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia to offload Modul8 space communications business venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Finnish telecom gear maker Nokia said it has entered into an agreement with Celestial Acquisition Corp. to spin out Modul8, its space communication solutions venture, into a new, independent company. <\/p>\n<p>Nokia said that if the deal succeeds, it will enable Modul8 to bring breakthrough innovations into real-world innovations for the growing space economy. <\/p>\n<p>The Modul8 venture has been operating within Nokia\u2019s Bell Labs, and played a crucial role in the deployment of a cellular network on the moon last year. This followed work with Axiom Space to develop 4G-enabled spacesuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Finnish telecom gear maker Nokia said it has entered into an agreement with Celestial Acquisition Corp. to spin out Modul8, its space communication solutions venture, into a new, independent company. Nokia said that if the deal succeeds, it will enable Modul8 to bring breakthrough innovations into real-world innovations for the growing space economy. The Modul8 venture has been operating within Nokia\u2019s Bell Labs, and played a crucial role in the deployment of a cellular network on the moon last year. This followed work with Axiom Space to develop 4G-enabled spacesuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}