What Can You Do with an off-the-Shelf Android Phone?

Why not send it into space?  Who wouldn’t want a tiny satellite all their own?  You could do satellite stuff.

NASA got busy with this slightly crazy concept and did just that.  They bought three Nexus 1 Android phones, supersized the batteries, duct-taped on a radio transmitter, and put them in control of three CubeSats (10 cm cubes).

You can read the full story here.  There is some additional information here.

Space!

Have fun with that.

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