Can Android phones function as low-cost satellites? That’s what NASA wants to find out. In a recent experiment dubbed “NexusOne PhoneSat,” a group of NASA Ames students, Google employees and two NASA contractors strapped Google’s flagship smartphone to the back of an Intimidator 5 rocket and blasted it into space.
NASA Sends Android Phone to Space
Repub: 2010-08-06 09:21:02. gf

