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NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites
by Joseph Earnest April 22, 2013
Newscast
Media HOUSTON—While
most people would discard an old smartphone and replace it with a newer
version, NASA used smartphone components to build and successfully launch satellites.
Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space
Sunday aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares
rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia.
"Smartphones offer a wealth of potential capabilities for flying small, low-cost, powerful satellites for atmospheric or Earth science, communications, or other space-born applications. They also may open space to a whole new generation of commercial, academic and citizen-space users." NASA's off-the-shelf PhoneSats already have many of the systems needed
for a satellite, including fast processors, versatile operating systems,
multiple miniature sensors, high-resolution cameras, GPS receivers and
several radios.
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