Lockheed takes one giant leap (of faith) with Moon comms

US aerospace and defence giant Lockheed Martin has launched a new subsidiary to provide communications services on the Moon.
Convinced this will be a growing area of need in the years to come, the company this week presented Crescent Space, an outfit whose remit is to provide infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) for lunar missions.
It might seem like something of a niche area – and indeed it is, when you consider that no human has set foot on the Moon in more than 50 years, and that all Moon